When Moms Invite Sex Offenders Home
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Because supervised visitation helps remove the threat of harm to the children the court is more likely to consider that. Community notification thus does not, as some contend, simply make public what is in already in the public record. The assaults of juvenile victims were more likely to result in an arrest 29 percent than were adult victimizations 22 percent , but assaults against children under age six resulted in an arrest in only 19 percent of the cases.
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I've been getting some e-mails about her in the past week. Apparently, she's been bashing single mothers. I haven't heard her version and I'm not going to look it up. I'm totally open to other points of view but I don't want to encourage hateful expressions of them. So regardless of what she actually did say, I thought that readers might like to see my take on single mothers. Here is what I wrote for the Huffington Post on Mother's Day in 2007 before I started here. As for single moms, well maybe some of them are trying hard, but they are up against it, forever trying to lure their children back from the brink of addiction, aggression, and crime. Before I read reams of scientific papers comparing children who grew up in different kinds of homes, I probably bought what both political parties were selling - the belief in the supposedly overwhelming superiority of two-parent homes. There is a certain logic to the arguments. Don't children raised by two parents have twice the , attention, and resources than children raised by just one parent? And isn't each of the parents in a married couple all the better at for having the love and support of each other? So I wasn't surprised when the results of a national survey, based on 22,000 adolescents, found more substance among the children of single mothers than among the children of two biological parents. But, considering the rhetoric about single parenting, I was struck by how few of the children of single mothers had substance problems - 5. A difference of about one percentage point is not a very big return on twice the love, attention, and resources. It's not that two was a magical number of parents - on the average, the kids did better living with a single mom than they did with a dad who was married to a stepmother. The best living arrangement of all with regard to substance abuse included three adults - typically, mom, dad, and a grandparent. Relationships with siblings and friends? There's research on those questions, too. In a nationally representative sample of many different kinds of households - two-parent biological households, single-mother households, adoptive households, stepmother, and stepfather households - there were no differences at all. What mattered was NOT how many parents there were, or whether the parents were biologically related to the children. Instead, whether children had problems with their grades or with their siblings or friends depended on whether there was a lot of conflict within families, high levels of disagreements between parents, or endless arguments between parents and kids. Sometimes children of single parents do better than children of married parents. For example, a study of hundreds of 10- to 14-year olds and their parents showed that in their day-to-day lives, single parents were friendlier to their children than were married parents. The children of single parents also spent more time with people in their extended families than did the children of married parents. But if two-parent households have twice of everything that adults have to offer children, then why don't the children in those households do far better than the children in single-parent households? And why would they ever do the same or even worse? The first is to let go of the fantasy that all children living in nuclear families have two totally engaged parents who lavish their love and attention on all their children, and on each other, in a home free of , conflict, and recriminations. The second is to grab onto a different sort of possibility - that many children living with single mothers have other important adults in their lives, too. I don't mean just kids who have Grandma living with them. I also mean all of the kids who have grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, teachers, family friends, and others who care about them and make sure they know it. Instead, they have networks of friends and relatives and neighbors who care about them and their children, and have been part of their lives for years. I agree with the traditionalists about stability: It is good for kids. So is the comfort of knowing that you can walk outside the door of your family home and have other adults who believe in you. Adults who have cared about you for as long as you can remember. Many children of single parents have the stability and security of a loving parent and a supportive network. UPDATE: Read much more here,. In one of my previous posts here at Psychology Today, I described a study comparing reading scores of the children of single parents than married parents in five Asian countries. Children of married parents did better in one of the countries, children of single parents did better in two of them, and there were no significant differences in the others. Secondly quit pushing this false high on the whole world.. Your acting like your a god who isn't subject to death. I remember God saying for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. By the lust of our mother eve for a taste of fruit have you also transgressed the commandments of God. DOing your soul and those of them who adhere to your false high the same dis service our mother did upon the whole face of earth. There is no hope apart from God. Forsake this campaign of yours and lessen the injury the Lord will bring to past on your life. Why should you die before your time? Fear the Lord and depart from this your transgressions which are evil.... My daughter is graduating this year plays guitar , piano , speaks French fluently doesn't abuse booze , drugs , or sex is on her way to university and to changing the world for the better.. My brothers and I are living proof. All of us are now successful, higher educated individuals that are substance free. Yes, we can socially function. Yes, we look like the normal family, however, one thing the article does not really touch upon is the disruptive nature single parenting has on children and their view of family structure. As the eldest child of a single parent household, I had to grow up fast. I was running the house at the age of 13, when my parents divorced. Cooking meals, cleaning, and taking on part time jobs. My childhood died at the age of 13. This causes confusion for both the parent and the children. The issue is still strong with my mother today. Many times I feel like her equal because I have been since a young age, however, I am not because I am her daughter. The lines of where one's position is in the family are blurred, and thus, creates dissention. I would also like to bring up single parent's tendency to rely on their children. I know that it is not with all single parents, but it is the nature of the beast for an individual to go to their family for assistance. But for those single parents that feel that they need to ensure that their children are not scarred also bring another problem into the mix. Hovering and completely intertwined with their children's lives. Their whole life is focused on that child and when the child leaves the nest, their lives are completely crushed. Since they have no partner, their child leaving is like their divorce all over again. The child then feels entitled to take care of the parent. The roles are once again blurred and sometimes even reversed as the child now acts as the parent. This is detrimental for the child's mentality, for they view to have completely missed out on their childhood. I believe this confusion created by blurred lines can often lead to depression and lashing out. How else could the child deal if they felt that they did not know their identity within the family? So, to conclude, yes, the statistics are not correct all the time, but that does not mean that it does not create an equally damaging affect on a child's psyche. The ones that are able to escape, be successful, and blend into society might not always be the lucky ones. We're just as damaged as the ones that fell. We just lie better. My mother playing both parenting roles has also meant being tougher, and I feel that has had an impact on how I am today. This makes me contemplates at times whether my blunt personality is caused by the absence of having a parent ally who could state when my treatment was too harsh? Although I turned out just fine, I would never raise a kid on my own. However, it's not their fault, I guess while trying their best doing the job of two people they leave out or forget certain aspects... My mother playing both parenting roles has also meant being tougher, and I feel that has had an impact on how I am today. This makes me contemplates at times whether my blunt personality is caused by the absence of having a parent ally who could state when my treatment was too harsh? Although I turned out just fine, I would never raise a kid on my own. However, it's not their fault, I guess while trying their best doing the job of two people they leave out or forget certain aspects... My brothers and I are living proof. So kids of 2-biological parent households sometimes do badly in life and kids of single moms sometimes do well. But you should look at the averages and on average children from two parent households do better by just about every objective measure. Pointing out the exceptions and ignoring the rule is poor social science. This article is garbage to even suggest there are positives to single motherhood. The children would be better off with one parent and extended family than in an abusive household. You forget that people have real reasons for getting divorced in the first place. Really, to make a blanket statement that single motherhood is a bust completely washes your cred. Linda Nielsen's recent compilation of the studies that have been done over the past 25 years that clearly show children are better off having both parents involved in their lives as equally as possible. The statement you made regarding conflict or arguing is simply a stereotype pushed by the feminist agenda that is flat out a lie. This held true regardless of how much or how little conflict had gone on between their parents. It is what has enabled and supported the single most destructive element of our social foundation for the last 30 years, The Family Court System. The Family court system is responsible for destroying more children's lives, and negatively affecting more families and extended families than any disease or war in any given year. It is an outrage and it is the SIlent Epidemic which you are negligently supporting and enabling. It is simply shameful. This held true regardless of how much or how little conflict had gone on between their parents. Instead, they have networks of friends and relatives and neighbors who care about them and their children, and have been part of their lives for years. So is the comfort of knowing that you can walk outside the door of your family home and have other adults who believe in you. Adults who have cared about you for as long as you can remember. Many children of single parents have the stability and security of a loving parent and a supportive network. Emotionally unhealthy people are more likely to get into bad marriages and end up divorced. This is not to say that all people who get divorced are emotionally unhealthy. But, two emotionally unhealthy people staying married is not going to provide a stable, healthy environment for children to grow up in. This is something I can say with certainty, having grown up with two unstable people who didn't get divorced. The few months they were separated when I was in high school was the most peaceful time I experienced in childhood. When I was 8, I prayed my constantly fighting parents wouldn't get divorced, but by the time I was 16, I prayed they would get divorced so the rest of us wouldn't have to live with their misery. I don't think divorce creates a bad environment for children, as much as unhealthy individuals leads to both divorce and an unhealthy environment for children. DePaulo seems to have a problem with accurately reporting statistical claims. Or is that because she has a problem with allowing males to be parents? SINGLE MOTHER HOMES 37. Comparing statistics for its Kids Count report, the organization reported that Detroit ranks No. Of the 16,729 babies born in Detroit in 1997, 13,574 were black, 1,679 were white and 817 were Hispanic. Seventy-one percent were born to unmarried mothers. This compared with a state average of 33 percent and a 50-city average of 43 percent. Sawhill, to House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources, June 29, 1999 There are more than 400,000 teen births annually in the US, most of them to unmarried mothers on welfare. National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. The children are more likely to be in foster care, less likely to graduate from high school, daughters are more likely to have teen births themselves, and sons are more likely to be incarcerated. Journal of Gender Law and Policy, Jan. Worth Star Telegram, Oct. Patrick Fagan and William H. Heritage Foundation Reports, July 27, 1995 In 2003, there were 1. Fagan and Fitzgerald above Less than 1% of children born to never married women were placed for adoption from 1989 to 1995. Waldman and Stephen P. Parental divorce during childhood emerged as the single strongest predictor of early death in adulthood. The grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier, on average, than children from intact families. The causes of death ranged from accidents and violence to cancer, heart attack and stroke. Parental break-ups remain, the authors say, among the most traumatic and harmful events for children. The Longevity Project ,By Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin Hudson Street Press A 2008 study led by Georgia State University economist Benjamin Scafidi conservatively estimated that single mothers cost the U. But in fact, Scafidi underestimated single mothers' burden to society by excluding additional costs of single mothers to poverty programs such as the Earned Income Tax Credit. That makes his estimates very low: Single mothers are six times more likely to be in poverty than married families. More than 80 percent of homeless families are single mothers. Scafidi's study also did not consider the burden single mothers place on law enforcement because of their higher likelihood to neglect or kill their children. It appears that Paul Clements has done a fine job of assembling the list. I'm not buying the premise of the main article in the least - despite the throngs of commentators who offer themselves up as examples of thriving after having been raised by a single mother for a thousand different reasons... Bad science makes for bad conclusions. If you need authority creds, I'm a PhD from Harvard with more than 100 scholarly publications and I taught graduate research methods for decades. The book also includes fathers. She misuses statistics and purposely mislead to sell books or to promote her agenda. Since DePaulo has a ph. The older studies where done, when more people's marriage determined parental invovlement. It isn't an issue of being a single parent, as increasing number of parents do not choose to get married. It is a matter of parental involvement, as parents single or married involvement varies amongst differing relationships between parents. Most of the research according to her is 'biased', because the previous studies are done against married couples, when in an era marrriage determined the level of parental involvement, but is deminishingly so today. A difference of about one percentage point is not a very big return on twice the love, attention, and resources. She does not cite this important factor in her article, although I'm going to assume she is aware of them, so what other conclusion is one to draw from someone with a ph. I I taught stats at the University level while getting my PhD. I cut you slack before because I am trying to get my new book published, and I did not want to undercut your sales efforts. Do you remember your earlier response to me regarding the hardwiring of the human brain? You threatened to remove my posts. You are loosing your credibility, fast. No one cares that you have 100 publications or a high end degree. We want the truth, the fact, the evidence. I was trained by some of the best stats people U of Michigan in the country. The studies have been fully vetted by experts. Children from intact families have far, far better outcomes. You remind me of people who run around screaming that the world is flat, because roundness is bad science. Do you also think that the world is 6k thousand years old? The Universe was created in 6 days? The science has been vetted again and again. Is that more bad science? Do you understand how science works? It is easy for a stats person to ferret out BS.... Sure, there are many studies that are flawed, but 92 studies of single parent families come up with the same conclusion over and over again. Outcomes are, on average, radically worse. The facts are overwhelming. Have you looked at any ANOVA tables? If the study is BS I guarantee the numbers won't add up. I have 92 studies that support the claim that single parenthood is bad for children. I am sorry, but it is true. I was raised by a single mom, God bless her but my childhood sucked. In decades of teaching I have seen the effects upon non intact families. I have no problem with your believing what you want to believe. It its classic Aronson. The problem is you are encouraging more single parent families with more fucked up kids like me, yes me. I was too lazy to post up all my sources, but I have hundreds. As stated earlier, a meta-analysis of 92 books on single parenting made the same conclusion. Single parenting is bad for children. They are all listed in my book on evolution and pair bonding. I can provide them if need be. To be honest, I should be writing and not posting, but I could not sit idly while someone made an exceptionally inaccurate claim that out comes for children of single parent families are good in the aggregate. What makes this so bad is that policymakers will use this disinformation to make more laws that destroy 2 parent families. This is not a theoretical debate, it has real consequences. Comparing statistics for its Kids Count report, the organization reported that Detroit ranks No. Of the 16,729 babies born in Detroit in 1997, 13,574 were black, 1,679 were white and 817 were Hispanic. Seventy-one percent were born to unmarried mothers. This compared with a state average of 33 percent and a 50-city average of 43 percent. Sawhill, to House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources, June 29, 1999 There are more than 400,000 teen births annually in the US, most of them to unmarried mothers on welfare. National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. The children are more likely to be in foster care, less likely to graduate from high school, daughters are more likely to have teen births themselves, and sons are more likely to be incarcerated. Journal of Gender Law and Policy, Jan. Worth Star Telegram, Oct. Patrick Fagan and William H. Heritage Foundation Reports, July 27, 1995 In 2003, there were 1. Fagan and Fitzgerald above Less than 1% of children born to never married women were placed for adoption from 1989 to 1995. Waldman and Stephen P. Parental divorce during childhood emerged as the single strongest predictor of early death in adulthood. The grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier, on average, than children from intact families. The causes of death ranged from accidents and violence to cancer, heart attack and stroke. Parental break-ups remain, the authors say, among the most traumatic and harmful events for children. The Longevity Project ,By Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin Hudson Street Press A 2008 study led by Georgia State University economist Benjamin Scafidi conservatively estimated that single mothers cost the U. But in fact, Scafidi underestimated single mothers' burden to society by excluding additional costs of single mothers to poverty programs such as the Earned Income Tax Credit. That makes his estimates very low: Single mothers are six times more likely to be in poverty than married families. More than 80 percent of homeless families are single mothers. Scafidi's study also did not consider the burden single mothers place on law enforcement because of their higher likelihood to neglect or kill their children. She was abusive when she was married to my father, and less-abusive when she married my stepfather. It's probably unfair for anyone to say that single parenting is the cause or places a woman at more risk to become abusive. Generally, men have been given the role of protector of the family. Increasingly, men have abandoned this lot in life. The nuclear family is the ideal in a perfect society. Mothers of all sorts have to overcome all types of adversity... Would kids do worse in a single father home? He gives a lot of data that directly refutes the author's claims. The thesis of the article isn't whether single mothers become abusive, it is how the children of single mothers fair, the above post proves through data extrapolated from studies that children from single parent families do much worse. Comparing statistics for its Kids Count report, the organization reported that Detroit ranks No. Of the 16,729 babies born in Detroit in 1997, 13,574 were black, 1,679 were white and 817 were Hispanic. Seventy-one percent were born to unmarried mothers. This compared with a state average of 33 percent and a 50-city average of 43 percent. Sawhill, to House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources, June 29, 1999 There are more than 400,000 teen births annually in the US, most of them to unmarried mothers on welfare. National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. The children are more likely to be in foster care, less likely to graduate from high school, daughters are more likely to have teen births themselves, and sons are more likely to be incarcerated. Journal of Gender Law and Policy, Jan. Worth Star Telegram, Oct. Patrick Fagan and William H. Heritage Foundation Reports, July 27, 1995 In 2003, there were 1. Fagan and Fitzgerald above Less than 1% of children born to never married women were placed for adoption from 1989 to 1995. Waldman and Stephen P. Parental divorce during childhood emerged as the single strongest predictor of early death in adulthood. The grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier, on average, than children from intact families. The causes of death ranged from accidents and violence to cancer, heart attack and stroke. Parental break-ups remain, the authors say, among the most traumatic and harmful events for children. The Longevity Project ,By Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin Hudson Street Press A 2008 study led by Georgia State University economist Benjamin Scafidi conservatively estimated that single mothers cost the U. But in fact, Scafidi underestimated single mothers' burden to society by excluding additional costs of single mothers to poverty programs such as the Earned Income Tax Credit. That makes his estimates very low: Single mothers are six times more likely to be in poverty than married families. More than 80 percent of homeless families are single mothers. Scafidi's study also did not consider the burden single mothers place on law enforcement because of their higher likelihood to neglect or kill their children. Realistically, assuming that the level of love and care is the same, the only reason children do better in two parent households is because two parent households are generally more financially secure. And frankly, that's not much to hang your hat on, since it means that single-parent households would do just as well in equivalent financial situations. It's not about two parents, or one parent, or parents of the same sex or opposite sex. It's about love and acceptance. Single-parent households whether headed by a mom or dad can provide what a child needs by utilizing extended family and friends. How many children have grown up with a grandparent or grandparents and have done very well. The more adults in a child's life providing love and support, the better off that child will be. If conservatives were really concerned about the children, they would work harder to alleviate the financial strain that single-parent households are under. But they won't do that, because that would jeopardize the false conclusions that they want us all to buy into. That the only acceptable family includes a mother and a father. Frankly, I don't buy it. Plus You Get Paid Handsomely To Share This Amazing Deal With Others! As You'll Soon Discover... Both Representative and Customers Win! If You Can't Make Money With This, You Need To Hang Your Hat... Tis Is So Easy! People Don't Need To Be Sold On Using A Cell Phone, They Can't Live Without One! A statistical factor on this question between 5. So, no matter how you slice it, children raised in a two parent home with a father and a mother Male and Female are still better off than a child raised by only one parent of either gender. I understand that some parents refuse to believe that single-parent families can do as well by themselves. It hurts people's ego, instead of feeding their ego. We should consider how long these kids being raised with a single-parent? I am a single mom of 3 kids and it is beyond complicated for me. Unfortunately I am NOT one with a network of family nor friends. I have no brothers sisters aunts uncles or cousins. Neither paternal or maternal grandparents either. Their father is in Florida and we in California. Both paternal GP's have little or no communication with us. I am THE most bottled up raged out maniac I have ever known. To me, true help does not exist. Simply MANDATED reporters who most of the time have no kids only a text book to learn from. My life is a disaster due to unemployment, welfare and food stamps and the lack of quality child are or network of trustworthy caregivers. I actually had to quit, yes quit, my job at the Marriott due to the 24 months of free child are expiring. I feel absolutely worthless and humiliated being their mother and can't even buy them a pair of shoes. This may come as a surprise that I actually had to stay home now as a mom instead of working. Believe me this really was the only way to do it. So tell me, society, where do you stand on my issue? Bad mom, good mom, she,s lazy? People need not judge until you find yourself in this abyss watching yourself wrinkling up with worry and anxiety. God Bless, if he even is out there. I have sole legal and physical custody. Their father never visits nor has ever paid his child support in almost 3 years with the so called Child support enforcement and local law officials NOT doing their jobs. I was married ,now divorced. Yes, to their father that's one father for all 5 kids? I get that judgment a lot so before the assumptions I wanted the facts out there. We were also married for almost 14 years. I'd just thought I'd add the downfalls I've experienced with now being a single mother of 5 with no help. Honestly I stay just about as stressed as I did married , though now its just because we live in rush hour 24 hours a day. Time is always the issue, other than that every single aspect of our lives is better. I work, go to college, and the kids attend school, play sports or other extracurricular activities, and so on. Three of which are straight A students and have been since their father chose to make me leave him. I also have maintained a 4. THE PROBLEM IN TODAYS SOCIETY IS MANY MEN DO NOT TAKE THE PRIVILEGE OF HAVING A FAMILY SERIOUSLY,OR HOLD IT SACRED AS THEY SHOULD. SON'S OF SINGLE MOTHER'S LEARN HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO TREAT WOMEN WITH RESPECT AND THAT THEIR FAMILY IS A TEAM AND THEY DONT FOUL ON THEIR OWN TEAMMATES. I'M NOT HATING ON MEN. JUST STATING MANY MEN ALLOW EACH OTHER TO NOT DO THE RIGHT THING MORALLY AND THEY EITHER LAUGH CASUALLY OR SAY IT'S NOT THEIR PLACE TO DO OR SAY ANYTHING. I'm not going to judge him by your word alone, because as far as I know, you could be spot on or just vindictive. You could be like so many single mothers out there that, at any turn, reject him from helping or seeing his kids and then bad mouth him like he has a choice. If that hatred has spread in your interactions with your 5 children, wise up and stop. That's one of the nost destructive elements of single mother's is their inability to stop spewing hatred about their ex, especially in front of their kids. Grow up and stop spewing hatred. Yes, a relationship takes 2, as does parenting, so get off your high-horse and cut the lady some slack. Single parents simply have no time for their kids. With work responsibilities, personal lifestyle choices, and other adult obligations, it's harder for single parents to make their children a priority. I have personally seen many single parents who simply hand over the responsibility of raising their kids to someone else. However, two parent homes have to be accountable to the other spouse for choosing to prioritize their children. I was raised by two parents who prioritized work and career over me even when they didn't have to. So, it can work either ways. Single parents need to work hard not to make money but to make their children a priority by spending as much time as they can with them. That makes the difference. Married parents have time, single parents have less. They just have to make it a priority. I have been having misunderstanding with my husband which leads to divorce some few years ago, But i was unable to move on with my life because i have so much love for my husband and my kid love him too. I heard about ekakaspelltemple yahoo. Participants must be single mothers over the age of 18 with a child between 12-36 months. Journal of Gender Law and Policy, Jan. Worth Star Telegram, Oct. You are spreading this misinformation, probably without ever reading the original research reports. I read the reports carefully, from the perspective of someone who has taught graduate courses in research methods. Well, I will look into it. Thanks for posting back. I was also raised for some years by my single mother until she remarried to a new man. Now they are getting a divorce after nearly 15 years of marriage. I feel bad for my 12 year old half brother and am worried for him. He's already experiencing some psychological problems. He's told me he's thought of suicide before and I am sure he is going to end up doing drugs when he gets older. My mothers divorce with my step father isn't going to do him any good at least I don't think. My sister was affected by the divorce with my biological father. She ended up doing heroin. I was lucky enough to avoid most hard drugs and stay out of trouble, but my grades were terrible and eventually dropped out of college. I have addictive tendencies and emotional issues that I am aware of don't recommend a therapist please. I read a book my Philip Zimbardo who did the famous prison experiment in the 70's. So it's difficult for me to accept you saying that these statistics are false, however I will try to look into it further. I hope you are right, but somehow it's very hard to believe. Well, I will look into it. Thanks for posting back. I was also raised for some years by my single mother until she remarried to a new man. Now they are getting a divorce after nearly 15 years of marriage. I feel bad for my 12 year old half brother and am worried for him. He's already experiencing some psychological problems. He's told me he's thought of suicide before and I am sure he is going to end up doing drugs when he gets older. My mothers divorce with my step father isn't going to do him any good at least I don't think. My sister was affected by the divorce with my biological father. She ended up doing heroin. I was lucky enough to avoid most hard drugs and stay out of trouble, but my grades were terrible and eventually dropped out of college. I have addictive tendencies and emotional issues that I am aware of don't recommend a therapist please. I read a book my Philip Zimbardo who did the famous prison experiment in the 70's. So it's difficult for me to accept you saying that these statistics are false, however I will try to look into it further. I hope you are right, but somehow it's very hard to believe. It is a good idea not to buy into one or two studies. But how about 92 studies that all say the same thing: Children from single parent families have far, far worse outcomes than children raised in intact families. From my new book, and I have a massive amount of sources backing up the data. The empirical evidence we have from decades of data proves that the role of a father is critical and that children raised without fathers have far worse outcomes than children raised in traditional two parent families. According to a meta analysis a study of studies 92 studies found that children of divorce had far worse outcomes across a variety of measures relative to children from intact families. Children do better when they live with their own two married parents. It bears repeating: Not one or two, ten, fifteen... I have references to the studies if you want to read them. Children from single-parent families are at increased risk of psychosocial morbidity, troublesome traits that are based upon socialization skills and psychological growth. Teenage children of divorce are three times more likely to need psychological help. Children of divorced parents are more likely to have health problems like asthma, headaches and speech defects than among children whose parents have remained married. Fatherless children have double the suicide rate of intact parent children. These claims have all been fully vetted in the academic literature. If you would like to examine the validity of these claim just break out the ANOVA analysis of variance tables of the studies. Statisticians know well that people can lie with stats. ANOVA and other techniques enable us to know if the stats are BS. In the case of the literature regarding single parenthood, tthose stats are 100% reliable and valid. Beyond that data, I was raised without a father and I am still living with the consequences. The pain, anguish, sense of abandonment are with me today. I still remember the way I felt on every father son day.
Sex Offenders Camp Out Under Bridge
At least four registered sex offenders have been killed. Given the consequences of sexual violence, it is understandable that society wants it to end. I I civil stats at the University level while getting my PhD. The law states: 9:2A-3. This country is getting out of hand with this sort of thing. Sex offenders do not recidivate at far higher rates than other offenders, as is often believed. Forsake this campaign of yours and piece the injury the Lord will bring to past on your life.