How family structure leads to academic success
May 5, 2025
In 1965, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote: “The role of the family in shaping character and ability is so pervasive as to be easily overlooked. The family is the basic social unit of American life; it is the basic socializing unit. By and large, adult conduct in society is learned as a child.”
Moynihan’s words still ring true 60 years later, as evidenced in a report by Nicholas Zill of the Institute for Family Studies.
