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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Note that the baseline for comparison is a household with two parents in a stable and healthy marriage.

I am 50 years old, and I've seen quite a bit in this life.  The overwhelming majority of single parent families I know are single parent for a reason - that baseline healthy 2 parents family was not feasible due to the significant issues with at least one of the parents.  If the kids end up troubled, it's not at all clear to me that this is due to being raised by single parent, as opposed to the issues that led to being raised by a single parent.  This is the old correlation <> causation issue.[/quote]

This is a really good point.  I feel like it would be helpful (if you could get enough data for statistical relevance) to include single parents by choice and unstable two parent marriages as district from single parents by circumstance and stable two parent families.

I heard a presentation once that cited research showing that for adoptive families, children adopted from foster care to single parents had as good outcomes as those adopted to two parent families.  Obviously, the families interesting in adopting that pass an adoption home study and children placed in foster care are not representative of the whole population but I think it’s an interesting data point in comparison to the general population data.[/quote]

If She used actual data and actual statistics and research methods that were standardized. Then she wouldn’t be able to make up some bogeyman and sell a 
bunch of books.[/quote]

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