[MrB]

Yes, it appears I was missing part of the discussion...

Lack of a father, regardless of the income level of the mother, is a recipe for trouble. But perhaps less so in the case of a well educated, involved mother.

[Citizen Blade]

Lack of a father, regardless of the income level of the mother, is a recipe for trouble. But perhaps less so in the case of a well educated, involved mother.

I agree that the two-parent family is ideal. But, the social pathologies caused by kids of single mothers tend to come from the demographic of uneducated, poor, teenage single mothers. I doubt many gang-bangers and other assorted criminals have a a single lawyer or doctor for a mother.

[Aquinasfan]

Lack of a father, regardless of the income level of the mother, is a recipe for trouble.

Yes, except for the case of widows. Interestingly enough, there is no statistical difference in social pathologies between the children of married couples and the children of widowed women.