We firmly believe that the family structure of a student influences his or her
academic excellence, thus our hypothesis is as follows:

         "Students living in a single parent family household will achieve a
    greater amount of academic excellence than that of their peers living in a
                                      two parent family household."

    At the conclusion of our literature research, we noticed that the majority of
the researchers who tested and analyzed the correlation between families
structure and academic excellence all drew a relatively similar conclusion:
students living in a household with two parent did better academically than
those living in a household with other family structures.  Although previous
research makes our hypothesis seem invalid and unprecedented, we can offer
logical reasoning for our direction of thought.

    If you refer back to Darwin and the basic principle of evolution, Darwinian
theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop
once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.
If a small population of birds happens to migrate to an island, for example, a
combination of inbreeding, mutation, and natural selection may cause this
population to develop different characteristics from those possessed by the
ancestral population on the mainland.  Students living in single parent
households, for arguments sake, represent the new type of life form, students
living in a two parent family household.  Although inbreeding is irrelevant,
Darwinism led us to believe that as student living in a single parent household
become the overwhelming majority, the education, teachers, parents, and
support systems have all mutated to cater to those students.  We believe that
students living in a single parent household, have characteristics that differ
from those living in a two parent household.  As the year 2000 comes to an
end, we feel it is important to retest the progress of the single parent student.