"That is the most absurd post of the year. Wow. Shocking."
And one that, as a single mom, I totally, totally agree with 100%. This happens often enough that single mothers should have learned the lesson by now that it's not safe or prudent to leave their young children with unrelated males. But some women simply must have a man, any man, even known dangerous ones, in their life.
I think some people are taking their subjective experiences, combined with sensational news stories, and extrapolating a rule that simply isn’t supportable. I agree that there is a bigger chance of this type of thing happening in a household where you have an unrelated man watching the kids.
However, correlation is not causation, and we have to remember that, or it’s easy to draw the wrong conclusion. You can’t extrapolate from that one fact that all men are more likely to abuse children. It could be true, instead, that the men who are more likely to abuse children are also more likely to get involved with relationships with single mothers. Alternatively, single mothers may be the ones who are more attracted to men who tend to have an abusive personality. Factors like that might not seem obvious, but they can be extremely relevant, and can cause you to draw a completely different conclusion from the same data.