I love how misogynists constantly expose that they never bother to read.
Inconvenient truths for guys who claim single fathers do better:
- Single fathers are much more likely to live with a new partner than single mothers (41% vs. 16%), meaning they often have help.
- Single fathers often receive more help from other women than single mothers do from other men (shocker). 1 in 3 kids grows up without a positive male role model, while female family members, new partners, & other women are often happy to step in & be a positive female role model.
- In single-parent households, non-custodial fathers are more likely to withdraw entirely from their children than non-custodial mothers. So once again, single fathers get more help than single mothers do.
- Single fathers often delegate heavily to older children, especially daughters, who may take on significant caretaking or domestic duties, sometimes acting as mother substitutes. Even the kids are helping single dads 🙄
- Single fathers are more likely to be divorced rather than never married, more likely to have older kids, more likely to be older, and more likely to have higher incomes. It's obviously easier to raise older kids than babies & toddlers, easier to be a single parent with more life experience, easier to be a single parent if the other parent is at all in the picture, and easier to be a single parent with more money.
- Plenty of studies show no big differences between single mother & single father households, or the disadvantages of one side do not only favor single fathers.
- Studies show single mothers do just as well as single fathers & 2-parent households (and better on some measures) when income is accounted for.
- One study found that children of single fathers have worse access to healthcare regardless of poverty status.
- Even some studies that show children of single fathers have better academic outcome & fewer internalizing problems like anxiety, they still show *more* externalizing behaviors & substance use. This could lead to an interesting convo on female vs. male coping behaviors & how that impacts our children if we weren't defensive & honest about it.
- Single fathers are outliers. Single fathers are less than 8% of all fathers; single mothers are 25% of all mothers. This obviously impacts research because they'll compare 3,202 single mothers to a mere 307 single fathers. If the men who aren't in the picture were the ones raising kids, I imagine we'd see plenty of negative outcomes from those men.
- The negative traits displayed by children of single mothers are often heavily linked to POVERTY. Yes, that matters, because it means all mothers aren't incapable, it just means poverty is bad for kids.
- When I search “single fathers are better than single mothers” on X, I basically never see a source cited. I thought men were the rational sex?
I want to make one thing clear: I have the utmost respect for single dads doing a good job. I am fierce in this post as a response to the claim women are incapable of parenting, not as a shot at single dads.
Links to all of this below.
Look, single mothers raise the worst children, and single fathers raise better ones.
So whatever labor the women right now are doing it's not for the betterment of the child, intentionally or not.
This supports my claim that it's more difficult for women to do the same things.