Suxanonline,
You never reference anything.

As a feminist I consider this normal, as they are more inclined towards propaganda and emotional manipulation, than statistics.

But here is your report, (from your obedient one).

“There were higher rates of overweight and obesity in girls aged four to nine whose parents were single (OR 1:60). Children in single-parent households watched more television, ate more food high in fat and sugar and less fresh fruit and vegetables than children from dual-parent households.”

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3109/17477166.2011.598938/abstract

"Successive Australian Governments have taken little action to curb the corporate takeover of childhood."

I think special interest groups and social engineers have done so much more damage to childhood than corporate interests. People who see themselves as 'children's advocates' are often the worst.

Thanks for that link above, Vanka.
I guess an overseas online library link is as good as any.
I can't imagine how difficult it must be for you to acknowledge all those university studies though?

I have bookmarked that library because it is easy to find what you want to superficially support your point.
I say superficially, because you can't see the full report unless you register with that site.

In any case, I found an interesting study on that site about parenting too :
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00678.x/abstract

Suzanonline,
The study came from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (HILDA), which I find to be the only survey connected to Australian universities of much reliability, and even then, some of the results have to be regarded with a great deal of suspicion, as they do seem to be feminist corrupted.

However, I won’t tell anyone about the results of the survey if feminists find it offensive.

Such as:

“The findings suggested that an additive effect of dietary and activity variables may contribute to the higher rates of overweight and obesity in Australian children, and that girls from single-parent households may be particularly at risk.”

Combining that with results that slip out occasionally out through the feminist censorship net that deal with child abuse and neglect in single parent families, (which seems to be 2-3 times higher than in dual parent families), not to mention the dramatic increase in the rates of child poverty in single parent families, then it does help pinpoint where the unhappy children actually are, or most likely to be.

The system certainly failed my own child miserably, and forced her to live in an abusing and neglecting home with her mother for years. As a result she ended up a half feral child in a SPECIAL class for SLOW children, underweight, not obese, as she often had to go without food, while her mother spent most of the money at the local hotels For those of you who may remember me, that daughter who i went to hell and back for has just completed a 4 year degree in psychology with 1ST CLASS HONOURS and has been selected for a first round PHD next year, and still only 21yo. While having 2 loving parents is the preferred option, she certainly didn't miss her mother.
In the acknowledgement at the start of her honours thesis( of which i am now the proud owner of a bound copy, the best christmas prezzy a dad could get), after thanking her tutors and classmates she wrote the following :- Finally, thanks to my dad, for fighting for me, guiding me through life and always believing in me. I could not have reached this point without the sacrifices you made.

Some local work on child outcomes and family structure

http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/RP30.html

I've not read the whole thing yet but what I've read so far looks like an honest attempt to understand the issues.

It's an introduction to proposed research "Development in Diverse Families" but I've not yet located the results of the proposed work (Lexi might be a job for you).

I tend to the view that advertising is very far down on the list compared to other factors in terms of childhood outcomes.

The nature of the parenting style, how well parents interact, the character of the friends a child being a few of the biggies.

For some of those factors there is little that we can do much about as a society, sometimes as a parent there is little that can be done.

A legal system that tends to reward conflict between parents following seperation being one of the factors that we can do something about although it's never going to be perfect.

R0bert