Protestants are better at childrearing

At least, the heretics're better at rearing others' children:

Adults who attended Protestant schools are more than twice as likely to be in an intact marriage as those who attended public schools. They are also about 50% less likely than public-school attendees to have a child out of wedlock.... Catholic-school attendees are about 30% less likely to have had a child out of wedlock than those who attended public schools.

Inasmuch as the data supports the WEIRD fringe against the core I'd love to read HBDChick's take on this.

Some of this is self-selection. If you're Protestant and you don't want to expose little Thurston to us Papists, you are either rich or else you are very invested in making sure your kids turn out okay.

I'd not mind if someone did a deep data delve (as Lakofka might put it) into the Catholic schools... of Europe. Is there a Lotharing way of teaching, between central France and the Rhineland? Much of Muh Protestant Work Effic seems to work even better for the historically-Catholic Bundesrepublik. But these people (Trump family aside) tended to stay home. Our Catholics have come from Ireland, southern Italy, and lately from the wider Spanish Empire.

(I am part Irish myself, so, lay off me. I am here trying to figure out how to educate my cousins better.)

Another takeaway is that "public education" in America (and Germany) is, itself, Protestant in origin. Just read those hilarious editorial cartoons from 1900ish starring Uncle Sam facing off the hordes of Italian immigrants. The Onion's cartoonist has made much hay with these. The Blaine Amendments worked and now, here we are. How did it all go wrong...?

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