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This study says nothing at all about that. Please take your bigotry elsewhere.
While there are clear advantages to children having same-sex role models there is no requirement that the role model be a parent.
U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households (2019)
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#22The legality and acceptability of divorce isn't mentioned but I think it should be. Single parents will be rarer in countries where divorce isn't a viable option but that doesn't mean the children are raised in healthier environments.
Yeah, thats a interesting factor.
But I can't even imagine trying to gather statistics for that with surveys.
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#24Not surprising. A part of the cultural war in the US (in 1992) was that it was fine, even encouraged, for a woman to be a single parent. The controversy started between Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown (a fictional character that decided to become a single mother). The MSM at the time was extremely supportive of Murphy Brown's position.
Here's an editorial by the Brookings Institution from 2012 about the controversy.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/twenty-years-later-it-tur...
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't see why single parent has a bridge to extended family. Single Parenthood is about parents splitting, extended family is about mutually supporting generations. Anecdotally, I know quite a few extended family situations, but only one single parent. Non-US context.
Anecdotally, non-US, many of my friends grew up in these situations (single parent, usually mom, extended family helps take care). Brought up well, too Apparently sometimes there are people other than your parent(s) who both want and can do a better job at actual parenting. (Say if one or both of the parents are still young and stupid/unstable or slightly insane/dead or can't be bothered.)
I have seen this in the US, but my sample size is very small even for an individual.
It might not even be detected on surveys. The parent would say they were a single parent if asked, which is true, but family pitches in a ton.
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#26The legality and acceptability of divorce isn't mentioned but I think it should be. Single parents will be rarer in countries where divorce isn't a viable option but that doesn't mean the children are raised in healthier environments.
That’s part of it, but having a “baby mama” (i.e. never married/living together in the first place), is also an issue. I know a guy that is 21 that has already fathered 4 children with 3 women, and is supporting none of them. It’s sad.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
This study says nothing at all about that. Please take your bigotry elsewhere. While there are clear advantages to children having same-sex role models there is no requirement that the role model be a parent.
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You're not merely suggesting, you're asserting that there's widespread evidence of a serious problem, without pointing to any.
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#29The legality and acceptability of divorce isn't mentioned but I think it should be. Single parents will be rarer in countries where divorce isn't a viable option but that doesn't mean the children are raised in healthier environments.
Yeah, this sort of statistic seems vague enough that you can draw whatever conclusions you'd like out of it. To draw any sort of real conclusions you'd have to dig a lot deeper.
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#30I’m more interested in the correlation with wealth and long lived ness with older couples living alone.