One - obviously all committed to their children's wellbeing, since you typically have to actively fight for them to become a single dad, instead of defaulting into single motherhood
Two - not afflicted with retarded girlbossitis, and go out of their way to find someone to help raise their kids instead of throwing them in shitty daycare to chase his dreams. Even if it's help from family instead of romamtic partners it's better than nothing.
And three - just because it's an impossible job alone, doesn't mean your average man can't still do a better partial success than average women.
And bear in mind it's only better, lots of kids of single dads are still way more fucked up than ones from complete families.
Just cause the mom is fucked up doesnt mean the dad isnt as well? Also wouldnt that imply the moms who had custody were actually the better single mom that were available yet they still had huge disparities in outcome compared to single dads and 2 parents
Just cause the mom is fucked up doesnt mean the dad isnt as well?
I think you're missing my point. That's not what I'm saying. I'm going to make up some numbers so you can see what I'm getting at. Assume that good/bad parenting has a normal distribution in both sexes. Half good, half bad. If a father has to be 25% better than the mother to get custody, it means the bottom 25% of fathers never get custody (a 0.0001% mother would be picked over a 24.999% father). So you're comparing the averages of 0-100 quality for women and 25-100 quality for men.
Yes there are cases where both parents are lousy, but if they were equally lousy, the court would have given custody to the mother anyway. Meaning, on average, single fathers are going to be better parents than single mothers. Even if men and women had the exact same distribution of parenting ability.
I mean assuming it's a normal distribution in both sexes would already be a huge assumption because the numbers don't really bare that out If that was true,
I think you're a bit too focused on the numerical idea that 0-25 quality mothers are to blame for their horrible stats but I think it's trying too hard to put a quantitative quality number on an abstract like parenthood.
Basically your child will get plenty of female role models with female teachers etc for young kids being very common. Unfortunately if you take a dad away there aren't really any other male influences in our society.
Then why do single dads have better outcomes than single moms generally?
Because single dads are
One - obviously all committed to their children's wellbeing, since you typically have to actively fight for them to become a single dad, instead of defaulting into single motherhood
Two - not afflicted with retarded girlbossitis, and go out of their way to find someone to help raise their kids instead of throwing them in shitty daycare to chase his dreams. Even if it's help from family instead of romamtic partners it's better than nothing.
And three - just because it's an impossible job alone, doesn't mean your average man can't still do a better partial success than average women.
And bear in mind it's only better, lots of kids of single dads are still way more fucked up than ones from complete families.
Do you have any idea how fucked up a mom has to be for the father to be awarded sole custody? Huge selection bias at work.
Just cause the mom is fucked up doesnt mean the dad isnt as well? Also wouldnt that imply the moms who had custody were actually the better single mom that were available yet they still had huge disparities in outcome compared to single dads and 2 parents
I think you're missing my point. That's not what I'm saying. I'm going to make up some numbers so you can see what I'm getting at. Assume that good/bad parenting has a normal distribution in both sexes. Half good, half bad. If a father has to be 25% better than the mother to get custody, it means the bottom 25% of fathers never get custody (a 0.0001% mother would be picked over a 24.999% father). So you're comparing the averages of 0-100 quality for women and 25-100 quality for men.
Yes there are cases where both parents are lousy, but if they were equally lousy, the court would have given custody to the mother anyway. Meaning, on average, single fathers are going to be better parents than single mothers. Even if men and women had the exact same distribution of parenting ability.
I mean assuming it's a normal distribution in both sexes would already be a huge assumption because the numbers don't really bare that out If that was true,
I think you're a bit too focused on the numerical idea that 0-25 quality mothers are to blame for their horrible stats but I think it's trying too hard to put a quantitative quality number on an abstract like parenthood.
Basically your child will get plenty of female role models with female teachers etc for young kids being very common. Unfortunately if you take a dad away there aren't really any other male influences in our society.