How many children in the US today are growing up in a fatherless home?

I recently heard 60ish%.

No source, sorry.

thejeff wrote:

I recently heard 60ish%.

No source, sorry.

Sorry, that was among Afro American families. I misread the title.

That's what happens when you start letting women sleep with other women. Thanks a lot, Lilith Fair.

The #'s will shock you wrote:

% wise

In the black community it's actually close to 80% now. Hispanics are at 60% despite the propaganda about family values. Whites are actually close to 20% and Asians at about 10%. The Hispanic numbers are skewed a bit because a lot of married women claim to be single mothers in order to rake in the welfare dollars and other benefits. Not PC, but that's what goes on. It's rampant in L.A., the Hispanics brag about it here.

CHILD ABUSE to let a child grow up without a mom and a dad. Pathetic adults we have in this world.

I do not live in a fartless home.

runoutoftkme wrote:

CHILD ABUSE to let a child grow up without a mom and a dad. Pathetic adults we have in this world.

Lol child abuse? A child can be raised by a single parent just fine. What is ACTUAL child abuse is having kids when you can't afford them.

Actual statistics...

http://www.prb.org/pdf10/single-motherfamilies.pdf

Alan

its gon rain wrote:

Lol child abuse? A child can be raised by a single parent just fine.

I'm pretty that the Freakonomics authors did a study about a decade ago that looked at possible correlations between IQ and race/ethnic group/marital status found that the strongest negative correlation with child IQ was not race or ethnic group, but being raised in a fatherless home.

There is also a strong correlation between low income households and fatherless households, which would also be a detriment to children in those households.

I would say at least 8 children

Maybe you should change the title of this thread to "Making oral great in America, again!"

fisky wrote:

its gon rain wrote:

Lol child abuse? A child can be raised by a single parent just fine.

I'm pretty that the Freakonomics authors did a study about a decade ago that looked at possible correlations between IQ and race/ethnic group/marital status found that the strongest negative correlation with child IQ was not race or ethnic group, but being raised in a fatherless home.

There is also a strong correlation between low income households and fatherless households, which would also be a detriment to children in those households.

Clarification: fatherless or single parent? What about households in which the single parent IS a father? What about households with two parents in which both are mothers? I'm pretty sure children in the latter scenario turn out fine.

Not an economist wrote:

fisky wrote:

I'm pretty that the Freakonomics authors did a study about a decade ago that looked at possible correlations between IQ and race/ethnic group/marital status found that the strongest negative correlation with child IQ was not race or ethnic group, but being raised in a fatherless home.

There is also a strong correlation between low income households and fatherless households, which would also be a detriment to children in those households.

Clarification: fatherless or single parent? What about households in which the single parent IS a father? What about households with two parents in which both are mothers? I'm pretty sure children in the latter scenario turn out fine.

Turn out fine? It is still early days with respect to getting lots of data on this. From what I've read, however, children raised by same-sex couples are significantly worse, but there's much research to be done.

qqreqwer wrote:

From what I've read, however, children raised by same-sex couples are significantly worse, but there's much research to be done.

And in which religious right publication are you reading that, exactly?

qqreqwer wrote:

Not an economist wrote:

Clarification: fatherless or single parent? What about households in which the single parent IS a father? What about households with two parents in which both are mothers? I'm pretty sure children in the latter scenario turn out fine.

Turn out fine? It is still early days with respect to getting lots of data on this. From what I've read, however, children raised by same-sex couples are significantly worse, but there's much research to be done.

Absolute bullshit.

doot doot wrote:

qqreqwer wrote:

Turn out fine? It is still early days with respect to getting lots of data on this. From what I've read, however, children raised by same-sex couples are significantly worse, but there's much research to be done.

Absolute bullshit.

Well, if it is not "early days," then please provide some data.

where exactly wrote:

qqreqwer wrote:

From what I've read, however, children raised by same-sex couples are significantly worse, but there's much research to be done.

And in which religious right publication are you reading that, exactly?

Ummm, none. You could see the work of Regnerus of University of Texas at Austin.

qqreqwer wrote:

Not an economist wrote:

Clarification: fatherless or single parent? What about households in which the single parent IS a father? What about households with two parents in which both are mothers? I'm pretty sure children in the latter scenario turn out fine.

Turn out fine? It is still early days with respect to getting lots of data on this. From what I've read, however, children raised by same-sex couples are significantly worse, but there's much research to be done.

Doesn't it depend on which genders make up the same-sex relationship? I mean there are all manner of genders now:

Gentlemen, ladies, agender, androgyne, androgynous, bigender, cisgender, cis female, cis male, cis men, cis women, cisgender females, cisgender males, cisgender men, cisgender women, females to males, FTM, gender fluid, gender nonconforming, gender questioning, gender variant, genderqueer, intersex, males to females, MTF, neither, neutrois, non-binary, other, pangender, trans, trans*, trans females, trans* females, trans males, trans* males, trans men, trans* men, trans people, trans* people, trans women, trans* women, transfeminine, transgender, transgender females, transgender males, transgender men, transgender people, transgender women, transmasculine, transsexual, transsexual females, transsexual males, transsexual men, transsexual people, transsexual women, people of spirit, womyn, womyn*, two-spirit, three-spirit, four-spirit, Other...

Runningart2004 wrote:

Actual statistics...

http://www.prb.org/pdf10/single-motherfamilies.pdf

Alan

Thanks for actual stats, sir. I'm curious, though, what their definition really means. They says 'families headed by a female with no spouse present.' There can be plenty of involved fathers who don't live with the mother, and have their kids fairly often. I'm 50-50 with my lesbian ex, so I suppose by some definitions they are being raised by both a single mother AND a single father.