Approximately 80% of all single parents in the U.S. are single mothers.

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Please don’t argue for the sake of arguing. Trying to understand who and why people commit child abuse, and how to solve that should be a common agreement.

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It's only a "potential reason" if almost half of all family units were single mothers.

Yes, you very much did suggest so:

"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 is a direct quote from your original comment.

It would only be a logical conclusion, if the number of single mother households was almost half of all family units, as would be proportional to the abuse numbers.

I will repeat myself. If that was the case, single mother households would have to outnumber dual parent homes, which is not the case.

It's funny you mention "primate brain shit". Look up "Women are wonderful effect". That is some "primate brain shit", which is exactly what people trying to explain higher abuse by women through simple numerical majority are doing.

As if women could not be shitty, abusive and violent human beings, even more than people think men are... But that would shatter their preconceptions about the big bad violent man and the soft beautiful innocent powerless woman.

Why are there options for half children? I have a couple children. One of them seems like he's half here sometimes.

Oh well then shit's about to get a lot worse.

My hypothesis; this is an article with information that might be used against women. Please allow me to specify; the issue here isn’t just child abuse, but who commits it. Without knowing who or why, it’ll be hard to remedy. However, anyone disingenuous will take this and say “look, another example of fathers and men being disenfranchised!” and that is absolutely not the case.

Anyone to try to understand further or disagree with the disingenuous will be called “abuse excusers” because it helps create the inner dichotomy of “us and them.” Aka basic primate brain shit doing basic primate brain shit.

You're saying "are" as if you're talking about the present flu season. Just to be clear, this spike was at the end of January.

Strange how people get all defensive just because someone attempts to interpret the data.

May I respectfully ask that you copy+paste what you’re referencing?

I think it would be helpful to the discussion to have more info but everything I googled can otherwise be found for free and by clicking the links in the posted article.

It’s not an excuse for abuse. It’s a potential reason there is disproportionate data.

Why do you think understanding disproportionate data equates to excusing violence against children?

They didn’t excuse abuse, they provided potential insight on why there is disproportionate abuse from mothers reported.

Which might make sense when accounting for single parent households. If women, more than not, gain primary custody of children then we should expect higher rates of mothers that abuse their children. Again, it doesn’t excuse abuse. I don’t know where people got this idea.

I should have been more clear. I 100% agree with you, but the idiots who run and vote in this country won’t stand for the price tag.

I took this dataset and made some more graphs.

Ranking each day

Frequency Distribution

You can see the bimodal distribution because of the seasons

Normal Distribution

Two things:

• Hospitals everywhere in Canada are short on staff and high on cases as COVID continues to be a thing and ...
• The flu is particularly bad this year, with a ton of pediatric patients eating up a lot of hospital beds and resources

So we have a double-hit of COVID season and flu season hitting at a time when hospital resources are already stretched beyond capacity - people are going to die.

It’s funny. I read the data and showed my girlfriend. Then mentioned something about how the mother base would mention the single mother variance to excuse the mother to father variance. Then I saw that very excuse in the comments.

> You suggested it though.

No, I did not. I did not even suggest that woman aren't the majority of abusers, and it can't be determine whether that is true or not based on the data provided. The only thing that I said wasn't a suggestion, it was a fact. That fact being that the raw numbers provided can't answer that question. The exception being that we can know, from the OP link, that foster parents tend to be abusers more often than day care providers because the raw numbers are nearly identical while far more kids are exposed to day car.

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Hi, I like your design and the simplicity. For the comparison of how many people earn more or less you linked to Arbeitsagentur, but I couldn't find the statistik you took your data from. My feeling is that you took the average income. But what is actually a lot more representative is the median, because of some peaks from high income CEOs that distort the whole data.

You suggested it though.

By trying to explain the majority of abusers being women through the fact that women tend to get primary custody.

The data does not distinguish between single or dual parenthood. So if it were the case, that abuse by women is caused by exclusive contact with the child, it would have to follow, that the number of single mothers vs fathers/dual parents is proportional to the abuse being perpetrated.

I doubt it is. Single mothers, or fathers, for that matter, are, thankfully, still a minority.

If abuse is not excusable no matter the perpetrator, why is women's custody brought up as an argument at all?

You should pay the fee and read the study. Your logic to blame the father is stretched beyond it's snapping point, to the point of being sexist and discriminatory.

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There definitely was a COVID spike at that time. But if you look at Figure 3.1 in the report, which seems to match the shape of the Worldometer graph I looked at first (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/canada/) I see a death spike that isn't appreciably higher than the ones before, and possibly skinnier. While COVID might have contributed to this total death rate peak, I am not at all convinced that it was the major driver of it.

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