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by return0 3757 days ago
I think because it's more likely women will become single mothers than men becoming single fathers.
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The article wasn't about single mothers, though. In fact it cited not having to have kids as one of the benefits of being single.
Then we are not talking about a lasting change in society but about a suicidal trend that shouldn't be 'celebrated' so carelessly.
Presumably the book has all the answers. I'm not planning on reading it, though.
For every single mother there is a single father.
> In 2006, 12.9 million families in the US were headed by a single parent, 80% of which were headed by a female.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_parent

Fathers who don't live in the same household as their kids are still fathers...
Also, one father can account for multiple single mothers (and vice versa). There is no inherent one-to-one relationship here.
But that is not what "single parent" means.
Thanks, didn't know that.
> In 2006, 12.9 million families in the US were headed by a single parent, 80% of which were headed by a female.

> 45% of single mothers are currently divorced or separated

Which means that potentially 45% of these 80% had the father in court fighting for his kids custody, and we all know how biased to justice system is toward men in that case. My point is don't make it sound like fathers just abandon their kids.

> Which means that potentially 45% of these 80% had the father in court fighting for his kids custody

No, it doesn't. (Divorce/separated is irrelevant to that, since parental rights for both parents generally exist from birth regardless of marriage so long as paternity is established, and so separation or divorce from marriage is not a prerequisite to custody proceedings. The "potential" number is much higher; though the actual number is lower.)

> and we all know how biased to justice system is toward men in that case.

Yes, courts are substantially biased in favor of men in contested custody cases; men end up with custody less often in divorce because men are less likely to seek custody.

> My point is don't make it sound like fathers just abandon their kids.

Unfortunately, the fact is that fathers, all too often -- both without marriage and when it fails -- just abandon their kids.

"Yes, courts are substantially biased in favor of men in contested custody cases; men end up with custody less often in divorce because men are less likely to seek custody."

More likely, men only go to court when they see a chance of winning to begin with.

Biologically, perhaps. Not legally. Custody battles settle this rather emphatically.
Raising a child and merely fathering a child are completely different things. Surely you must understand that?
It's not a one-to-one correspondence. Nothing says the numbers have to match up. In an extreme case, an individual single father could potentially correspond to dozens of single mothers. An individual single mother is more limited, but could still match up with a dozen or so single fathers.
If you look at the actual demographics, for every 1 single mother there is well under 1 single father.