I think the previous post is enough to illustrate my main point: Atheism leaves society defenceless against evil.

Hi Grateful, once again you need to reapply your 'null hypothesis'.
The examples supplied are essentially of extremely bad parenting, and demonstrate no solid connection to atheism.
Bad parents exist in all cultures; I seem to recall stories of children being sent out in front of soldiers to clear mine fields in the Iraq-Iran war, for the sake of Allah. I would could that extremely bad parenting -among other things...
Somewhere around 30,000 children are still dying every day from malnutrition in our world; I'm betting in the vast majority of cases their parents are stone cold sober, and utterly helpless.
Need I also point out the countries in which which these deaths occur are quite often Muslim dominated?
I would certainly agree that alcoholism, and particularly infant and juvenile alcoholism is an obscenity, but I think it is a symptom of societal failings, rather than the disease itself.
Perhaps when people start caring more for each other, instead of a fictitious God, we may see an improvement in these figures.