It's Official: The Experiment Has Failed
For the best part of thirty years we have been conducting a vast experiment with the family, and now the results are in: the decline of the two-parent, married-couple family has resulted in poverty, ill-health, educational failure, unhappiness, anti-social behaviour, isolation and social exclusion for thousands of women, men and children.
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From Experiments in Living: The Fatherless Family By Rebecca O'Neill; Sept. 2002, CIVITAS
Children and Single Moms Whether it is caused by violence or not, children living with single moms don't do well in our society. It used to be the exception. Now it is becoming the rule and progressively worse. Is that not child abuse too?
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT CHILDREN FROM SINGLE-MOTHER FAMILIES Single-Mother Family - Two Parent Family Relative Odds1 Problem % (n)2 % (n)2 Hyperactivity 15.6 (68 plus 1,480) - 9.6 (221,573) 1.74 Conduct disorder 17.2 (73,659) - 8.1 (180,786) 2.36 Emotional disorder 15.0 (67,205) - 7.5 (173,714) 2.18 One or more behaviour problems 31.7 (137,460) - 18.7 (418,894) 2.02 Repeated a grade 3 11.2 (36,288) - 4.7 (78,026) 2.56 Current school problems 3 5.8 (18,862) - 2.7 (46,120) 2.22 Social impairment 6.1 (25,105) - 2.5 (51,344) 2.53 One or more total problems 3 40.6 (128,895) - 23.6 (381,715) 2.21
Children from single-mother families are 2.21 times (221%) as likely to have one or more total problems than those from two-parent families, twice as likely to have an emotional disorder, etc. (The probability of this being due to chance is smaller than 1 in 1,000) Weighted projections to reflect national population of children. Data for items so annotated apply for 6- to 11-year-olds only. All other data in the table apply to 4- to 11-year olds.
