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Originally Posted by Phil McAvity
So you think the kind of trauma inflicted on kids like sexual abuse, alcoholism, neglect, drug abuse, physical and emotional abuse is right up there with the parents renting rather than owning their own home? Do you even hear yourself? 
Also, I never said there aren't dysfunctional two-parent families because of course there are, I was talking about the data that clearly indicates that children raised by two parents fare better in life than those raised by one parent. Just as there are happy, succesful people raised by one parent but the evidence is clear that two parent families are better for kids. It's called a "generalization" based on social science data |
I could ask the same. So you think the risk of losing the roof over one's head doesn't add to existing childhood problems? Or that the same problem as an adult (if not outright homelessness) doesn't impair one's ability to process them and move on? The amount of violent crimes and ODs downtown that're coming from fixed addresses with secure rent... is pretty minimal.
Research on families is still a work-in-progress; depending on which study you look at, single-parent kids do slightly better, nuclear kids do slightly better, or there's no difference whatsoever.
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