Wizard_Tendies t1_j0j200f wrote on December 17, 2022 at 12:34 AM

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

Approximately 80% of all single parents in the U.S. are single mothers.

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Please don’t argue for the sake of arguing. Trying to understand who and why people commit child abuse, and how to solve that should be a common agreement.

Sininenn t1_j0j4j6f wrote on December 17, 2022 at 12:54 AM

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 on December 17, 2022 at 12:58 AM

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 on December 17, 2022 at 1:05 AM

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.