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Sininenn t1_j0iijis wrote

Reply to comment by mywan in Child abuse in the U.S. - victims by perpetrator relationship 2020 by Not_that_wire

Are you suggesting that single mothers are the majority of all types of family units, even outnumbering families with both parents?

Even if you are right, it does not make abuse permissible whatsoever, no matter the sex of the perpetrator, or their familial relation to the victim.

The fact is, as the data clearly shows, that mothers abuse their children a lot. And it's an issue that needs attention.

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market_theory t1_j0ihzhn wrote

Reply to comment by sunchaud in in 2023 India will become the most populous country in the world, surpassing China, which holds the #1 since 1750s. source: The Economist by Junoby

It has experienced good real per capita growth -- which is to be expected given its low starting point -- but the predictions that it will soon outstrip China have yet to be realized.

> You can hate India all you want

Why do you think I hate India? I don't much like its current leader or his moronic hindutva supporters but I'd much rather see it do well than China.

> "the boom of the economy" have been common place only after 1990

I will concede I overstated the period.

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rabbiskittles t1_j0ih95l wrote

Reply to comment by xenocles_the_lesser in [OC] Provisional weekly death counts in Canada (all ages, both sex, from 01/2010 to 08/2022) by OlibriusR

I was right there with you thinking there’s no reason COVID would cause a random spike right there, but I looked it up and apparently there was a huge spike in cases right around then: https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/covid_briefs/101_briefing_Canada.pdf

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mywan t1_j0igbhf wrote

Reply to comment by Sininenn in Child abuse in the U.S. - victims by perpetrator relationship 2020 by Not_that_wire

These numbers are raw totals. There are far more mothers with full custody than fathers. So by raw totals mothers would outnumber fathers even if the mothers and fathers were equally likely to be abusers. This also applies to differences in day care provider and foster parents. Far more kids are exposed to day care than to foster parents. So the fact that the totals are nearly the same indicates that foster parents have a far higher rate of abuse. The opposite applies to friends and neighbors. The fact that friends and neighbors are essentially universal among kids while their raw abuse numbers aren't that much higher than day care providers means that abuse from friends and neighbors is particularly rare on a per capita basis.

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bowsmountainer t1_j0iero2 wrote

Reply to comment by KyleAg06 in [OC] Cost of Carbon Zero - Historical Look At U.S. Funding of Fusion Energy by Metalytiq

It’s far cheaper to build trains, than to continue massively subsidizing the car industry, and maintaining car based infrastructure. Countries far poorer than the USA manage to build more trains, so I really don’t understand why there should be any problem whatsoever in the USA. If the politicians weren’t owned by the car industry.

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ieron1 t1_j0ic7t9 wrote

Reply to comment by WillingPublic in Average Price of Gasoline in the United States, Adjusted for Inflation, 1995 to 2022 [OC] by Birdy_Cephon_Altera

I used my believing muscles to their fullest to believe your statement that you just paid $2.55 per gallon. I just paid $4.75, at the cheapest gas station in my area (and it was above $6 for a while this year). Of course, California is a very special part of the US, but still, it's quite a difference. I'm guessing you're not in California - perhaps in your area the golden era of muscle cars and cheap gasoline never went away.

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