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Wizard_Tendies t1_j0j50h5 wrote

Reply to comment by Sininenn in Child abuse in the U.S. - victims by perpetrator relationship 2020 by Not_that_wire

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.

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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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