<p>I was searching the web and found this article, I’m not a parent or anything, just a mere senior starting her applications, but anyways, when I found it, it totally reminded me of The Parents’ Forum. Enjoy : )</p>
<p><a href=“All Pro Dad | Advice for Dads on Parenting, Marriage and Relationships”>All Pro Dad | Advice for Dads on Parenting, Marriage and Relationships;
<p>I’ve got an easier way. I’m selling a new service. It’s called “Rent a Saltonstall.” ;)</p>
<p>The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, President Emeritus of Notre Dame University said: “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”</p>
<p>This saying was given to my father by one of his patients, who was also a Catholic nun. He posted it on our refrigerator at home when I was a preteen.</p>
<p>May make for good kids. Won’t help nearly as much for H. admissions as a rented Saltonstall.</p>
<p>Am I marking myself as somehow uneducated if I admit that I have no clue what a Saltonstall is and why one would rent one? (PS: Google was no help.)</p>
<p>I’ve always loved that quote, Speech529, and I loved the article, Engineering101. I do wholeheartedly believe both of them.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.answers.com/topic/saltonstall-family[/url]”>http://www.answers.com/topic/saltonstall-family</a></p>
<p>(I do know ONE who didn’t get in. In 10 generations, there should be at least one. He went to my alma mater. Went on to “great success”. Have no idea whether he loves his wife, or whether his father loved his.)</p>
<p>Still, it might not help as much today as it used to. The three Saltonstalls with college facebooks go to Ithaca College, Middle Tennessee State U, and the Savannah College of Art and Design.</p>
<p>While it’s relatively easy to show that a majority of troubled teens come from broken homes, I don’t know that you can show that that is the overriding factor. It also corelates to economic status. I’d like to see data corelating top university admissions to longterm marriage of the parents before I bought into this “feel good” report.</p>
<p>“Still, it might not help as much today as it used to. The three Saltonstalls with college facebooks go to Ithaca College, Middle Tennessee State U, and the Savannah College of Art and Design.”</p>
<p>Different wing of the family. (There is a Gurdon Saltonstall wing that went to Cumberland County, North Carolina in the 1790s, and “never recovered”.) My service only rents out the “best” Saltonstalls. ;)</p>
<p>The article is 100% correct, and it goes beyond just success in a materialistic way - in fact that could be the least important factor. However, anyone pointing this out - is sure to be shouted down because its not politically correct to state the obvious</p>
<p>Sure, it might help but I think it has more to do with solidarity as a familial unit than being a child of two parents that love each other. I, personally, am the child of two parents divorced since I was eight and do pretty well in school (as most CCers do). I also have plenty of bright friends whose parents are divorced. Marriage is only one form in which a family can be united.</p>
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There was an ad in the supermarket last weekend for eating dinner as a family – citing studies showing that children whose families eat dinner together every night are less likely to be involved with drugs and alcohol than children with families who eat apart. Ergo, make a nice chicken dinner for your family tonight and keep your kid off drugs!</p>
<p>It made the scientist in me cringe. Correlation =/= causation.</p>
<p>If you don’t have a Saltonstall, a Cabot, Lodge or Kennedy will do.</p>
<p>Leverett is good. (but sorry, I only Saltonstalls.)</p>
<p>I have no idea who the Saltonstalls are either…so I googled “Who are the saltonstalls?”</p>
<p>Wikipedia has a huge article on the Boston Brahmins (if you care to know) <a href=“Boston Brahmin - Wikipedia”>Boston Brahmin - Wikipedia;
<p>I did not realize there were so mnay Brahmins in Boston!!</p>