Research will show that boys raised outside of intact marriages are, on average, more than twice as likely as other boys to wind up in jail -- with each year spent without a dad increasing the odds of future incarceration by 5 percent (NJCCR.org). ... Perhaps if a child has never known life with a father, it will not be as difficult on him as a boy who is suddenly forced to live with only his mother. ... The independent variable will be whether or not a boy lives with his father or with other relatives. ... In fact, according to the study, boys living with a stepfather have higher rates of ...

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Analysis After Ralph's tense, exciting stand against the hunters, the ending of Lord of the Flies is rife with irony. ... The officer says that he is unable to understand how upstanding British lads could have acted with such poor form. Ironically, though, this "civilized" officer is himself part of an adult world in which violence and war go hand in hand with civilization and social order. He reacts to the savage children with disgust, yet this disgust is tinged with hypocrisy. ... Much of the novel is allegorical, meaning that the characters and objects in the novel are infu...

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