Reply #250: That's the whole point you crazy person!!

[Selwynn]

This is the WHOLE POINT.

Try to stay with me... you are citing these statistics, and saying that they "prove" that children are better off in single parent homes than single mother homes....

Now, if there was a study that looked at 1,000 kids in single father homes and 1,000 kids in single mother homes and made some conclusions based on that, that would be an intersting study.

However, the statistics you are quoting at looking at cases of single parent homes on the WHOLE. Listen carefully here: on the whole more kids live with mothers than fathers -- by a ratio of 6(app. 12 million) to 1(app. 2 million). There are 6:1 more chances for a kid to miss the influence of his FATHER than there are for a kid ot miss the influence of his MOTHER. That's why the stats are misleading for supporting your claim -- because they were never designed to support your claim. OBVIOUSLY, stats like "children are more likely to suffer bad things because their fathers aren't around" is going to be a real stat -- but all that stat tells us is that the absence of the father is a negative factor on kids. IT DOES NOT IN ANY WAY get us to the conclusion that it is BETTER for a kid to be with a father than a mother.

Unless you can show me a study in which a large equal number of single father homes and single mother homes were sampled, which indicates taht kids in single father homes seem to do "better" - then so far you have quoted a bunch of statistics that don't at all support your agrument in the slightest.