CHeifM4sterDiezL said:

which bush cuz that is not at all what they taught us and also not single person in my school had a kid.

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XUL said:

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Twenty five million children are growing up without fathers in the home. That’s 40%
of the kids in America. As reported by the Center for Children and Families.

In 1960, just 5 million children under 18 lived with only their mother. By 1980 that
number had more than doubled. Today, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation,
19 million children live in single-mother families, up from 17 million in 2000. In some
school districts today, including several in New York and Michigan, the majority of
families are led by a single mother.

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As pertaining to single parent households and the children involved:

➲  63% of youth suicides (Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Bureau of the Census)
➲  90% of all homeless and runaway children
➲  85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders (Source: Center for
Disease Control)
➲  80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger (Source: Criminal Justice &
Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978.)
➲  71% of all high school dropouts (Source: National Principals Association
Report on the State of High Schools.)
➲  75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers (Source: Rainbows for
All God`s Children.)
➲  70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice,
Special Report, Sept 1988)
➲  85% of all youths sitting in prisons (Source: Fulton County Georgia jail
populations, Texas Department of Corrections 1992

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➲  40% of all live births in the US are to single mothers.
➲  90% of welfare recipients are single mothers.
➲  63% of suicides nationwide are individuals from single-parent families.
➲  75% of children in chemical dependency hospitals are from single-parent families.
➲  More than half of all youths incarcerated in the U.S. lived in one-parent
families as a child

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http://lib.post.ca.gov/Publications/Building%20a%20Career%20Pipeline%20Documents/Safe_Harbor.pdf

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I hope I'm not asking a question that's already been asked in this thread 6 times. Here goes. To answer the question I will ask another question and your answer will define what I think of single parent house holds:



What's worst? A child living in a house with two stable competent adults or in a house with a single depressed dysfunctional drug addict possibly abusive parent who can't keep a job?

What's worst? A child living in a house with one stable competent adult or in a house with two dysfunctional drug addict possibly abusive parents who can't keep a job?

So in short, what's the difference?

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CookieCrumbs said:

Statistically... We can't really judge people or fix the problem if we assume simply being single is the issue.

It would be worth trying to study at any rate. If we did indeed find that children who are raised by a single parent who is stable has a good income and time to spend with the child and that child still did poorly it would tell us something significant about early childhood development and children in general

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Psilocybnaut9 said:

What about the orphans with no parents at all? One parent is better than none right?

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Patlal said:

How do you prevent divorce though? That's the number one cause of single parenthood.

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You don't
you take the kids away from the parents when they divorce
and put them into adoptive homes with two parents

give whole new meaning to 'stay together for the kids'