Submitted by Not_that_wire t3_znno50 in dataisbeautiful
[deleted] t1_j0irqev wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Child abuse in the U.S. - victims by perpetrator relationship 2020 by Not_that_wire
It’s funny. I read the data and showed my girlfriend. Then mentioned something about how the mother base would mention the single mother variance to excuse the mother to father variance. Then I saw that very excuse in the comments.
Wizard_Tendies t1_j0ixujb wrote
It’s not an excuse for abuse. It’s a potential reason there is disproportionate data.
Why do you think understanding disproportionate data equates to excusing violence against children?
Sininenn t1_j0j0zmr wrote
It's only a "potential reason" if almost half of all family units were single mothers.
Wizard_Tendies t1_j0j200f wrote
Sininenn t1_j0j4j6f wrote
From your first link:
"Living With Both Parents: 50,609,000 Living With Mother Only: 15,607,000"
It may be the case that 80% of single family units are mothers. But it is NOT the case that single parent households are the majority. And it is definitely not the case for single mothers.
Why is is so hard to understand?
IF higher numbers of abuse perpetrated by mothers could be explained by women's primary custody, the number of single mother households would have to be proportional to the difference between abuse perpetrated by women vs men.
Wizard_Tendies t1_j0j50h5 wrote
The statement wasn’t that single mother households outnumber both parent households. It was that the disproportionate number of mothers might be also due to more single mother households.
All cases of child abuse do not happen in co-parenting households. They mostly occur there, but why is there a difference between single parent households? Specifically, why do more single mothers abuse kids? Those are the questions, damn.
Sininenn t1_j0j5v8h wrote
And my statement is that the disparity could be explained by single mother households only if single mother households comprised a large enough portion of all family units, one large enough to be able to cover disparity.
It's as if people were unwilling to accept that women can be even more violent than they think men are.
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