"Abuse Risk Seen Worse As Families Change"

Carly Moore sits at the grave site of her son, Jayden Cangro, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

After reading this article I am completely disgusted by the monsters that could ever hurt a child. As far as the correlation between single-parent households and abuse or neglect, I have to agree with the statistics. If the studies show that children coming from a single parent household are fifty percent more likely to experience abuse than children coming from a nuclear family, I have to say they are right. Even though it may not be complete proof that this is what is causing the abuse, it is still a significant finding about the prevalence of this problem.

As was stated in the article, there are many single parent households that work out fine and where the children are accepted with love by their mother's new spouse or boyfriend. It is just that when the boyfriend is brought in and the child is not their blood, many of these men feel that the child is more of an obstacle than something that could create a family. I agree that the liberals in this country are too worried about "political correctness" to come out and say there is anything possibly wrong with a single mother household. The fact is, many mothers out there do a terrific job raising their children but you are never going to have a perfect single mother family because every child needs a father.

Many of the men in the world today disgust me with their parenting, and I for one would do anything for my children. But when these women are forced to raise their children on their own they eventually start dating and it can be anything from a couple of long term serious boyfriends to a parade of different men. Either way, I do not think anyone out there could ever love a child that is not his or her flesh and blood like a child that is. That is not to say that abuse does not take place in a family that has the two original parents, but the statistics now show what a decrease in occurrence you actually have. I think that further research definitely needs to be done to investigate more deeply this correlation, and then the findings need to be utilized to help with the marriage promoting programs.

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