Well, there is always the Homer Simpson approach:
Posted on 07/15/2023 6:12:20 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
Not saying one is better than the other. Just that women get the kids the majority of the time in a divorce. Stands to reason that if the dad does get the kids he would have to be head and shoulders above the women.
Very difficult for a father to get the kids in a divorce. I just wonder how this affects these children’s out comes.
My basic thought is that mental illness rates are significantly higher among women than men. It’s best not to have a crazy parent.
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I have no data, but I’ve always observed that women are more prone to go to shrinks to escape their anxieties, while men prefer to tough things out themselves.
Well, there is always the Homer Simpson approach:
Good point. Communists want people to be weak, compliant and fearful. Does a woman ever tell her boys that it’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees?
Wait, men, especially white men, cause all the problems in society today!!!! How can this article be true unless someone has been lying to us all this time?????
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Imagine being a 13 year old boy and getting into trouble with your friends.
Your friends say oh chit here comes you dad!
Now versus here comes your mom!
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Single Father Households Do Vastly Better Than Single Mother — Here’s the Real Reason Why
Nope, not signing up to read a single article.
Single dads rock.
I don’t know...my grown son told me he “listened to every word I ever said”...but then, I am a woman of few words...and was a pretty strong disciplinaran also. But he also lived with his Dad as a teenager, who showed him all the BAD ways to live. He got to compare lifestyles, and luckily chose mine.
The article does not address the demographic aspect of this. Are there any patterns in the racial breakdown of the single mothers group versus fathers? I hate to make things be about race, but in this case I have to wonder if staistically significant numbers of the single mothers are poor and/or black, and the fathers are white and/or better off financially. Better-off single fathers likely pay for babysitters and nannies, so their kids have a similacrum of a two-parent situation. Education achievement of the single parent also likely matters quite a lot in how the children are raised. The article dismisses economics as a factor, but I’m not convinced at the rigor of the author or the research.
General point: the sex of the single parent, of itself, might not be a critical factor in outcomes for the children, but it correllates to the factors that are.
You are absolutely correct. Simple as that.
I could share some experiences that confirm this fact.
I hope the article goes on to report this fact...
Mother’s current boyfriend is the single most dangerous person, place or thing a young child faces.
Because they have jobs?
Boys tune out women at a certain age. They are surrounded by bossy women at school and at home.
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Good point. We must remember that many boys do not tune out bossy overbearing mothers. And without a dad at home, they often turn out queer.
I was left by a cold bass turd who had an affair with oh never mind. I finished raising the kids and DID NOT DATE UNTIL MY KIDS GRADUATED COLLEGE WHICH I PAID FOR. That is the key. The worst thing for the kids is mom’s new boyfriend.
Did you read post #2? You can see the whole thing at that link.
Such study results are always just identification of things that are “more frequent” (or merely of higher frequency), and as such they are generalizations that do not identify that not everyone meets that standing/ranking.
There are individual single-parent mothers and single-parent fathers who do not fit the rankings in the survey results.
Ben Carson and his brother were raised by a single-parent mom. He and his brother do not fit what the study projects happens most often to such boys.
The character, particularly the moral character, of the parent is what I think is the most important when it comes to single-parent households.
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