Divorce and Fatherhood Statistics
May 19, 2011 4:27 AM   Subscribe

SPARC Statistics on Single Parent families Interesting statistics on single parenthood and its (alleged) results. Search turned up This AskMe.
posted by marienbad (6 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Sketchy, agenda driven page. -- vacapinta -- vacapinta



 
I'd like to the second half of that page about fatherless households repeated with motherless households.

Worrisome figures, but seems a bit agenda driven
posted by fatfrank at 4:48 AM on May 19, 2011


as hopefully becomes obvious from the first few statistics, this is one of those "fathers' rights" pages and, as such, presents worrisome statistics about single mothers' poverty as evidence that single mothers are less-fit parents than single fathers.

a single link to a set of cherry-picked statistics to support a particular political-social agenda, presented without context, seems like an odd choice for a FPP, particularly when there are so many other sites on single parenting, divorce, etc., that could have been included.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 4:54 AM on May 19, 2011 [3 favorites]


A BIT agenda-driven? How about majorly agenda-driven (because I don't believe I have the only children in a sole-parent household who are not abused or in court or using drugs and alcohol or suicidal or under psychiatric care, but are doing well at school, well-mannered, healthy, happy, etc.)?

I call bullshit on their statistics, and the flashing ad screeching that I WIN BECAUSE I'M THE MILLIONTH VISITOR THIS WEEK at the top of the page did nothing to convince me otherwise.
posted by malibustacey9999 at 4:56 AM on May 19, 2011 [2 favorites]


I clicked "home" at the top of the linked page to find out more about this organisation and their agenda, and an extremely sketchy ad popped up - it had the CNN logo and a dialogue box asking if I was sure popped up when I tried to close it. This is sketchy in the extreme and I trust these statistics about as much as I trust the advertisements on the page. This is definitely a candidate for deletion.
posted by cilantro at 5:06 AM on May 19, 2011


Technical Analysis Paper No. 42 - U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services - Office of Income Security Policy

Maybe my google fu is just sucking this morning, but does this actually exist? I can't find a trace of it online...

It would have helped if they had provided the year of the report for the first source, the "Current DHHS report on nationwide Child Abuse". Is this it? Under the "Child abuse and neglect research" heading? The 2009 report (4mb pdf) gives perpetrator statistics by sex on pg. 76:

44.4 percent male, 53.8 percent female, 1.8 percent unknown
posted by symbollocks at 5:18 AM on May 19, 2011


That report doesn't break down statistics to biological mother or biological father anywhere, either.
posted by symbollocks at 5:20 AM on May 19, 2011


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