Eyeinthesky, what a lovely story you wrote about your' daughter.
Congratulations on her success despite all the odds.
I know that children can be successful in single parent households if they have at least one dedicated parent like yourself to guide them.

Vanna, I agree that single parent households are not always the best, but you can't tar them all with the same brush.

Most male or female single parents do the best they can. Divorce/separation of parents is a common occurrence in our society, and is one problem that will not go away.

Constantly berating and putting down single parents (especially mothers) doesn't help anyone.

The feminist university researchers are doing all they can to alert us all to the pitfalls of being in a single-parent household.
They also alert us to children at risk in all sorts of other households.

Vigilant reporting of abuse perpetrators, no matter what race they are or from what family environment, is needed at all times.
Now all we need are the answers as to what to do about it...
Forcing unhappy or abusive couples to stay together 'for the sake of the children' is not one of those solutions.

Suzanonline,
"Forcing unhappy or abusive couples to stay together 'for the sake of the children' is not one of those solutions."

So what makes them unhappy?

There has been next to no research undertaken into divorce or separation by any university in this country. Feminists control most of social science research in universities in Australia.

And only in recent times has any research been conducted into single parent families in this country. That research has come about from the HILDA survey, which is actually slightly outside of university research.