racist moms

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/do-mothers-pass-on-racism-more-than-fathers/more-2132

This is surprising how? As I understand it, there's generally a parental 'role' for both mother or father. It can be satisfied by either party, but generally people might acquire the ability to interact and co-exist with others from their motherly relationship and tend to acquire self-temperance/control/discipline from the fatherly (this comes up most often in studies of prison populations, ie nobody sends father's day cards in prison, but mom almost always gets a card). Since generally racist tendencies are involved in not co-existing with others, it would tend to mean that we would blame mothers abstractly for this problem. Additionally, as the story notes, mothers still tend to pull the majority of childcare duties. Which gives them a good deal more influence on things like friendships, activities, and so on.

Please wake me when someone conducts a study that contradicts logical common sense.