Easily explainable: The kids that skipped breakfast are the ones that go out at night regularly to get hardcore wasted and then wake up in the afternoon in another persons house with a stranger in bed and scream "oh fuck i gotta go to school man"
haha i get what you mean. i do find this survey to be pretty amazing cuz they were able to correlate those two things but at the same time i could care less. in my mind, the easy access to pornographic material and people being more open-minded these days to pre-marital sex is what i feel to be reason for people having sex at a younger age. also, there's been a study showing that due to the high level stress society that we've become, kids are maturing faster physically, not mentally, and therefore, they hit puberty earlier than most people did 50 years ago. So kids hitting puberty earlier and getting those sexual urges definitely does not help either xP
IMHO, Kids are physically maturing faster because of our better present day access to nutrition (in particular, protein). There are some who suggest, that the wide variety of hormonal ingredients used in modern agriculture, too has an influence; though nothing has been formally or conclusively presented as evidence. In studies where stress was shown to influence puberty onset, it was noted that the stress was fairly specific; namely where prolonged familial conflict was present, and in families with absentee parents (particularly with loss of the father figure). Also, excessive weight or sudden dietary changes can factor in or influence triggering of an early endocrine response. That stated, it also isn't so much as getting sexual urges with puberty (early or not), because ALL kids will reach puberty and get those sexual urges. What the research showed was that (without regard to the puberty issue), the more involved the parents were with their kids the less likely that those kids acted on such urges. So, the moral here is, take the time to talk and interact with your kids, or else you'll be a grandparent sooner than you expect it, LOL... :ugh:
i can see the link with family and having sex early but breakfast is bit weird. not very convincing...
Making breakfast is a labor and time intensive event to have to do on a daily basis; having someone do this for a child routinely shows that there is a parent in that child's family life who devotes tremendous personal time to the child, thereby increasing the likelihood that the child would have incorporated ideas of restraint when confronted with desirable things (like sex), and less likely to act on them. Simply put, consider that daily breakfast at home is an indication of cohesive family life or a high degree of parental involvement. Obviously, this correlation fails if a child (who hates his parents and never speaks to them) just likes to eat and stops in McDonald's every morning. -what?
meals are important for humans...especially breakfast..as this is the first meal of the day and u tend to absorb more nutrients..i feel those who intentionally skipped breakfast just to have some weird philosophy gained is real stupid
