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Thinking the unthinkable: boys of single mothers have bad outcomes.

And they also become President of the United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

Bubba too. Unfortunately, the plural of anecdote is not data. Statistically, children of single moms fare poorly. I am curious as to the degree that it is different beween single fathers and single moms.

Mental disorders don't go away when you have two parents.

I think the literature disagrees with you. "The relationship [between single-parent families and crime] is so strong that controlling for family configuration erases the relationship between race and crime and between low income and crime." http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/2000/05/sommers4.htm also http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00497878.2012.707...

> Statistically, children of single moms fare poorly

That doesn't mean there's a causal relationship, of course.

It's also possible that third factors (poverty, etc) tend to cause both "single-mothership" and "poorly faring kids." [Indeed, it seems fairly likely.]

No, the correlation persists even at normalized income.

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