Reply to NYT Article on "Rise of Single-Parent Families is Not a Good Thing"

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what is the moral of the story here?
We have immoral men who do not live with the mother of their offspring, or are the mothers bad 
Now someone even suggested women should breed for Charity because every adoptee gets guaranteed 2 parent home that will never experience divorce, parental unemployment, disability or end up on welfare[/quote]

The first step is for society to universally acknowledge the evidence that there are some circumstances that lead to more favorable outcomes statistically. (This doesn’t mean you don’t personally know of exceptions to the ideal. There are, of course, evil people who do evil things in two-parent families and there are exceptionally-successful good people in single parent families…that’s not the point)
The point is that striving to create two-parent families is the best outcome on average for most circumstances and results in positive outcomes for the financial, academic, and socio-emotional well being of the child.
Acceptance and support for families who do not operate in this model for whatever reason is also important for society. But it does society a disservice when we pretend all outcomes for any circumstance are equally desired. It’s okay to have a standard and ideal outcome, figure out the most likely way to achieve that, and promote that as a value.[/quote]

Or is the point that striving to create better societal supports for single moms the point? As a society we're moving away from marriage as the ideal, and for many good reasons. How do we keep up with changes in a way that prepare the next generation to succeed? After all, they're tomorrow's leaders. [/quote]

Whatever the government does - it can't compensate for not having two parents in terms of possibility of having two earners and possibility of splitting the labor of raising kids.[/quote]

Two parents in the home does not guarantee two incomes or equitable division of labor. [/quote]

That is true - but it's more likely [/quote]

It doesn't have to be equitable. Even if the division of labor was 10% to 90% it's better than 1 person bearing 100% of the burden.[/quote]

No because it’s 90% of a lot and 100% of less. Plus there is no man child to care for and ego stroke which is a ton of time suck for married women.

It’s all around easier for women when men are not in the picture.[/quote]

Well I guess that's not what the data shows here.[/quote]

What data? [/quote]

The data that it the premise of this thread - and shown in the original post on page 1.[/quote]

The data that is the premise of this thread is that single women with resources and married people with resources both have successful children. There is no difference in the success of a child based on marital status.

That is the data from the woman who wrote the oped in the New York Times[/quote]

This is the data from the article I am reading that was linked in the OP:
"This is not a positive development. The evidence is overwhelming: Children from single-parent homes have more behavioral problems, are more likely to get in trouble in school or with the law, achieve lower levels of education and tend to earn lower incomes in adulthood. [b]Boys from homes without dads present are particularly prone to getting in trouble in school or with the law.[/b]"[/quote]

I wonder if two parent lesbian families counted as “two parent families” or “homes without dads” in her research.[/quote]

Why do you think she would even care about lesbian families? She doesn’t even care about a single woman with resources. She only counts single women raising children if they don’t have money.

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That chip on your shoulder isn’t a great look.[/quote]

You get a little chippy when faced with facts and data.[/quote]

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