Parenting Questions - The Inherent Problem of the Association

The kinds of data that are easiest to access when we have questions about parenting are data where you have two groups of families and one group engages in one parenting practice. For example, something I was writing about this morning is Montessori School. With an analysis like that, you very rapidly run up against the problem that the kinds of families that are sending their kids to Montessori school are really different than those who aren't. They're more likely to be white. They tend to live in higher income areas. There's just a bunch of other things, which are difficult to separate from the impact of the kind of school.