Reason,
There can be a mixture of Marxism and Capitalism. Stalin tried to operate this way (but not very well).

The destruction of the nuclear family can even benefit certain people economically. Family break-ups provide more money for solicitors and counsellors. An increasing number of Single Person Households provides more money for housing developers and real-estate agents. But eventually most people lose, not gain, (as is currently occurring).

RE: Single Parent Families and Mental health:-. Here are excerpts from various studies and articles. There are many others with similar results, and the situation becomes quite conclusive.

Children growing up in single-parent households are twice as likely to suffer a mental illness, commit suicide or develop an alcohol-related disease than children who live with both parents.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/24/1042911549349.html

- After controlling for other demographic factors, children in lone-parent households are 2.5 times as likely to be sometimes or often unhappy. They are 3.3 times as likely to score poorly on measures of self-esteem.
- Among children aged five to fifteen years in Great Britain, those from lone-parent families were twice as likely to have a mental health problem as those from intact two-parent families (16% versus 8%).43
- A major longitudinal study of 1,400 American families found that 20%–25% of children of divorce showed lasting signs of depression, impulsivity (risk-taking), irresponsibility, or antisocial behaviour compared with 10% of children in intact two-parent families.
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pubs/experiments.php

Our findings of higher rates of mental health problems experienced by children one-parent and step/blended families are similar to those of recent studies in the UK and north America.
http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/afrcpapers/silburn.html

In 2001 only 14% of couple families had a weekly income less than $600 (gross), but almost two-thirds (63%) of single parent families earned less than $600 a week . The lower income of single parent families is a matter of concern as this impacts directly on the potential wellbeing of children in those families.
http://www.childcomm.qld.gov.au/pdf/media/Snapshot_2005_4_family.pdf

With the exception of widows, married women have the best mental health of all the women. When age differences are adjusted, married women have better mental health than widows as well.
http://aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/fm2002/fm62/dd.pdf

Silly me. I should have known that our mental health problems are caused by evil feminists and single mothers.

Oh my, mahatma duck, you have more mischief than even the most average miacat. We need to find a special pond for your tease, one with an equal dose of Proteus to accomadate the unique size and shape of your frolicsome splash.

Timkins, I absolutely appreciate your references here, and the value you are giving to this subject. I agree with where you are coming from, and will use this information myself, TA.

Also are you aware of the material from the UK? And Timkins, what do you think about the "Preserving Life and Dignity" Public Advocate Qld Report? I have put the links on the "something about mental health" webpage which is located in the Crime Prevention material on the front page of www.miacat.com

I also intend to put a more current page up eventually, and would be grateful of any specific research links you suggest, for such a info page.

To our sneering avian friend … ignoring the predominant ideologies that grant sole reproductive and parental rights to women while absolving them from any negative outcomes, is analogous to attemting to solve the “chicken or the egg” question without consideration of the male bird, or indeed the mutation that hatches that first so-called chicken.

One in 10 babies under the age of one was reported to the Department of Community Services last financial year on suspicion of being abused or neglected.

http://smh.com.au/news/national/one-in-ten-babies-reported-to-docs/2005/10/15/1128796715153.html

MiaCat,
I would think that the breaking up of families and single parent families will not be the only contributing factors for the projected higher rates of mental illness in future years, but with about 1 in 3 children now going through family break-up and being removed from their fathers, that alone would be enough to fill doctor’s waiting rooms, psychiatrist’s waiting rooms, counselling centres, and also jails in future years.

“would be grateful of any specific research links you suggest, for such a info page.”

For some more results of studies on children from different Family Types.
http://www.heritage.org/research/features/marriage/index.cfm
http://www.gocrc.com/research/dangers-of-sole-custody.html

Below is a summary of the Marxist / Feminist view of the traditional family.

Marxism
· Acts to control sexual behaviour
· Serves to reproduce labour power for Capitalism
· Is a safety valve for people's frustrations
· Channels and legitimates the exploitation of women
· Provides "free" services for Capitalists (reproduction of labour)
· Primary consumer of Capitalist products
Feminism
· Men exploit and oppress women within the family
· "Rationalising myths" about male / female natures legitimate male domination over women.
· Women have a service role forced on them ("unpaid servants" )
· Increasingly "Dual role": women as paid workers and unpaid housewives
http://www.sociology.org.uk/cardfam.htm

Marxist / Feminist ideology has wanted the “deconstruction” of marriage and traditional families, replacing all with de facto relationships. This is definitely occurring with about 30% of children now being born to unmarried mothers, but such relationships outside of marriage are now seen as being much less stable, less healthy, less wealthy, and produce too few children.

For more on Marxist / Feminist family ideology
http://www.zetetics.com/mac/sexcor/marr.html
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/13114/

There have been predictions that more countries will become Muslim within future years, (including countries such as France interestingly), as Muslims within those countries are having more children. It appears that feminism will die out within a number of countries, (due ultimately to a lack of children being born), quite possibly being replaced by Islam.

http://mac.abc.se/home/onesr/ez/fmn/How%20Feminism%20killed%20fml.html

I am reading through your web-site

Reproduction of inter-genrational change?

The "disturbances" effecting household families and the breakdown of capacity to deal with this kind of disturbance, at community level, is the most degenerate varence depraving humanity with regards to the future, today.

As world demographic change occurs, there is a resemblance to the idealogical conflicts in the past, where the systems of cultural belief and gender influence the mainstream values of a particular society, as it is inter-grafted with the economic transformation of understanding need, in the way it engages the acceptance of others.

I believe, we must work to emancipate our knowledge, and that the key to understanding equity, is through the oath given to families.

That it is the economic model now that displaces the nature of the T-intersection and how this pans out to motive people, in their capacity to live a meaningful life, will depict the wellbeing of Australian society, in comming decades.