| bdbdbd said: Well, they're cultural issues because it's human nature. They have become cultural issues because that's the way human's act. People complain when society assumes women are better parents, because they aren't. If yo follow the data, kids raised by single fathers succeed in life roughly as good as kids raised in nuclear families, whereas kids raised by single mothers end up being the worst - still society favours mothers. Mothers aren't better parents than fathers, they're just different. Women being more interested in raising kids doesn't make them better parents, especially if their interest ends for some reason or another. Men on the other hand have the advantage of understanding kids being their responsibility. Women have kids when they want kids, men have kids when they're ready to have the respondibility. |
Except they're not.
A lot of the things that you're talking about have been different in different cultures and different times because they're largely not human nature. And even the things that tend to be influenced by human nature, are still hugely suggestible by changing culture.
I actually just saw someone explain your latter claim that single fathers have better outcomes. A big reason is that culturally people expect that single fathers need more support.
