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DaddySatyr -> RE: Single Parenthood = Child Abuse? (3/3/2012 3:17:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: epiphiny43
I don't think so. My best Psychology prof, (My major, not an 'elective') made very clear that by most criteria, kids of opposite sex single parents had more 'issues'. Kids from same sex single parent as the child had about the same issues as conventional two parent kids. The most telling stat was about twice the commitment rate to some mental health program during adulthood for kids raised by opposite sex single parents as the rate of commitment of two parent family kids. Lack of a same sex role model in the home is the usual interpretation of why more kids have development problems in those homes. The issues were clear over large groups, individual families of Every description have great kids, average ones and seriously mal-adjusted ones, often all in the same family. Recent studies show the child's emotional and social development (Certainly not intelligence!) are the accurate predictors of success by every metric and those kids come from all backgrounds. Some is luck, some is commitment of time and energy sharing life by whomever is around when the kids grow up, parents are just there more often to blame, everyone contributes, or doesn't. The just published study of kids using social media and how it affects or enables their growth and adjustment only backs up the previous work. Internet interaction is less real and more 'Happy' no matter what the people feel. Kids that lack experience in real life off the 'net do poorly. Being on virtual com (texting, Facebook, twitter, 'chat') is not a handicap if there is also considerable face-to-face engagement with friends and family/community. All of this is several quantum leaps above the level of analysis our Wisconsin loon is operating at. Maybe someone needs to give him 3 kids to support and the usual welfare check and food stamps to do it on. He sure needs some sort of reality check.
At to the ludicrous law, I don't see any sitting appeals court not slamming this back down the esteemed legislator's throat. No telling what any one judge may do. There is far more evidence smoking is child abuse and something to legislate about as it is voluntary behavior, single parenthood is situational and not in the control of either the parents or the State. But I don't see that sort of logic stopping maroons like our legislator from trying to criminalize poverty or homelessness. Which they spend the rest of their time trying to create.
Well, I only minored in psychology (It was really useful for my major) but that was after three years of psychology as an elective in HS. Still, I hope you'll find these sources as credible as I do:
Census Bureau (Sorry about the .pdf)
Gordon Berlin (MDRC) Testimony to Congressional Committee
The Future Of Children Princeton/Brookings Institute (Sorry. Another .pdf)
There's a ton out there. I'm not going to do all the research, Suffice it to say that my claim that there are a large number of studies that show that children have more advantages in two-parent households is accurate.
That is not to say that I agree with this bill. I was mentioning this as a means of supporting my statement that I thought this was a pendulum issue and a matter of people being reactionary.
I find it interesting that after the traditional, two-parent (both biological) married (stable) and two-parent (one biological) re-married (stable) living environments, children seem to better in two parent lesbian families. For some reason, I wouldn't have thought that. I guess I assumed other children would tease such children mercilessly but, I grew up in a different time.
Peace and comfort,
Michael
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