'safer with their dads'

[Lefty Scaevola]

The real difference is that mom's boyfried are more likely to abuse the prior dominant male brood than dad's girlfriends are to abuse the kids/stepkids.

[Whaleboy]

grown women i dont think take drugs as much as grown men do

Its perfectly possible to grow up fine in a family whose parent(s) smoke pot!

Drugs have little or nothing to do with it.. if parents are on heavy drugs, then they shouldnt have kids with them. Simple.

[blackice]

Lefty Scaevola Actually that is not quite right, sexual abuse=step dads, physical mental abuse=mom.

Non the less with bio dad=way less chance of either which is the entire point.

Strip the protector away from the child and you leave the child wide open for abuse.

Albert Speer I personally know no Dad that does not want to be with thier child.

Yes thier are bad dads and bad moms I know six moms who left thier children, but all in all two bio parents is obviously in the best interest of the children.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by elijah
Its perfectly possible to grow up fine in a family whose parent(s) smoke pot!

If you are an example, then you have disproved your point.

[Dis]

children should not be with their fathers!!

[reds4ever]

My Dad raised me and my sister on his own from the age of 9 (me not my dad!), and while I have yet to win a Booker/Nobel prize I havn't turned out too bad.

[Dis]

aren't you a communist?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
I'm sorry but you're all being homophobic. Two women or two men can offer just as much love and support. It's not the sex of the parent that counts, it's the personality.

You mean it's not the sexual orientation that counts -- different from sex/gender.

[Dis]

I have to disagree with that. I'm one of these old fashioned people that thing a child deserves a positive role model of both genders. I'm okay with two gay women raising a child if they have a really close brother/ male friend/father who helps raise the child. And I'm okay with two gay men raising a child if they have a close sister/female friend/mother who helps raise the child.

as for divorces I favour the woman getting custody of the child.

[Theben]

please don't feed the knee-jerk reactionary troll

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Dissident
aren't you a communist?

I'm a socialist, whatever that matters.

As for the woman getting the rights to the children in a divorce, my mother left and didn't give a sh!t and she would probally still have got custody if she'd had wanted it, luckily she didn't...

[Ben Kenobi]

please don't feed the knee-jerk reactionary troll

If you can't say anything nice...

Trolls, as a rule, don't quote sources.

Very interesting to see such a powerful affirmation of a two-parent family, mother and father.

Thanks for the info, blackice.

Is it possible that most single parent families are single parent female families? That would explain 42% vs 4%.

mr. mitchell:

Point very well taken. What's the proportion of single mothers in a family vs. single fathers? 10:1?

If this is true, than a single dad is no better than a single mom. Best to have the two together.

[Dinner]

I heard that alot of abuse occured because mom's new boyfriend was an a-hole who rapes the daughter and beats up the son while mom blithely pretends none of it is happening. What's up with these women? Are they so afraid they won't find another man who wants them that they will put up with their children being abused?

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Dissident
I have to disagree with that. I'm one of these old fashioned people that thing a child deserves a positive role model of both genders. I'm okay with two gay women raising a child if they have a really close brother/ male friend/father who helps raise the child. And I'm okay with two gay men raising a child if they have a close sister/female friend/mother who helps raise the child.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I heard that alot of abuse occured because mom's new boyfriend was an a-hole who rapes the daughter and beats up the son while mom blithely pretends none of it is happening. What's up with these women? Are they so afraid they won't find another man who wants them that they will put up with their children being abused?

my older sister is like this

I don't understand it at all, she was abused as a kid by her mother's boyfreinds (she was adopted)

she has two kids (with another on the way), the father is a loser who I think is still in prison

this summer she started dating someone who was a listed sexual preditor and was not suppose to be arround young boys (her eldest is a young boy of 2)

this made me very very angry

she was not wanting to have anything to do with her kids in august and so my aunt and uncle took them, I am hoping that she will not take them back

Jon Miller
(who is also hoping she does not have anymore)