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@StoneyGuardian @hollowlegs @HallAnderson14 @Pegster69 @EoinPoil @MissLauraMarcus @StuartEdwards This is not an area I have recently researched; however, I was able to find some interesting material on the subject, which I will share presently.

@StoneyGuardian @hollowlegs @HallAnderson14 @Pegster69 @EoinPoil @MissLauraMarcus @StuartEdwards The @uscensusbureau found that "[c]hildren living with a divorced parent typically have a big edge over those living with a parent who has never married—an even bigger edge if that parent is the father" (census.gov/prod/3/97pubs/…).

@StoneyGuardian @hollowlegs @HallAnderson14 @Pegster69 @EoinPoil @MissLauraMarcus @StuartEdwards @uscensusbureau The @uscensusbureau found that "[c]hildren living with their father (particularly if he was divorced) were more likely to be part of a family with a higher median income than those living with a single mom" (census.gov/prod/3/97pubs/…).

The American Time Use Survey supports this.

@StoneyGuardian @hollowlegs @HallAnderson14 @Pegster69 @EoinPoil @MissLauraMarcus @StuartEdwards @uscensusbureau Consider "Single Mother Parenting and Adolescent Psychopathology" by Issar Daryanai, Jessica L. Hamilton, Lyn Y. Abramson, and Lauren B. Alloy that was published in 2016 in volume 44 of the _Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology_ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…).

@StoneyGuardian @hollowlegs @HallAnderson14 @Pegster69 @EoinPoil @MissLauraMarcus @StuartEdwards @uscensusbureau "[S]ingle mothers’ employment of psychologically controlling and rejecting parenting behaviors are predictive of adolescent psychopathology, beyond …socioeconomic status, race, youth gender, baseline symptoms or diagnoses, and childhood stressful events" (supra, p. 10).

@StoneyGuardian @hollowlegs @HallAnderson14 @Pegster69 @EoinPoil @MissLauraMarcus @StuartEdwards @uscensusbureau "[S]ingle mothers were significantly more likely than cohabitating mothers to engage in psychologically controlling parenting behaviors, which predicted increased adolescent depressive symptoms over a three-year interval" (supra, p. 10).

@StoneyGuardian @hollowlegs @HallAnderson14 @Pegster69 @EoinPoil @MissLauraMarcus @StuartEdwards @uscensusbureau "[M]ore adolescents experienced prospective externalizing disorders (ADHD, ODD, and CD) in single-mother families than in cohabitating-mother families, mediated by single mothers’ tendencies to parent with more rejecting and psychologically controlling behaviors" (supra, p. 10).

@StoneyGuardian @hollowlegs @HallAnderson14 @Pegster69 @EoinPoil @MissLauraMarcus @StuartEdwards @uscensusbureau "An alarming 32% of adolescents in single-mother families experienced one or more externalizing disorders, nearly triple the diagnosis rate of adolescents with two parents" (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…, p. 10).

@StoneyGuardian @hollowlegs @HallAnderson14 @Pegster69 @EoinPoil @MissLauraMarcus @StuartEdwards @uscensusbureau "Almost a quarter of U.S. children under the age of 18 live with one parent and no other adults (23%), more than three times the share of children around the world who do so (7%)" (pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019…).

@StoneyGuardian @hollowlegs @HallAnderson14 @Pegster69 @EoinPoil @MissLauraMarcus @StuartEdwards @uscensusbureau "Among solo parents [of which 81% are mothers and 19% are fathers], mothers are almost twice as likely as fathers to be living below the poverty line (30% vs. 17%), but poverty rates for cohabiting parents don’t differ among mothers and fathers" (pewresearch.org/social-trends/…).

@StoneyGuardian @hollowlegs @HallAnderson14 @Pegster69 @EoinPoil @MissLauraMarcus @StuartEdwards @uscensusbureau @threadreaderapp, please unroll.