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> adolescents without a father in the home were 72.6% more likely to have suicidal ideation than those that did

I wonder why this is, what the opposite (lacking mother) percentage is, and why that wasn't so salient.

The census data has the numbers, 91-92% of kids live with both parents or a mother. 4% live with only their father, 4% live with neither. With those numbers I think it'd be hard to get a significant sample.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/number-of-chi...

This was a big survey, I think it would have been significant. They had 41,434 responses without a "father living in the home", so by the census numbers you'd expect ~8200 responses without a mother in the home. They also didn't consider kids without either parent, which should have been equally significant. It does seem like a weird omission - I found what I think is the survey they used (https://web.archive.org/web/20200707085026/https://www.commu...) and the study authors did have this information, they just didn't use it for some reason.

The wording they use, "father in the home", seems like it covers kids without any parents or only grandparents as well as kids with single mothers, so the phrasing seems pretty misleading.

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