What is better, a good one parent family or a bad two parent family?

a good one parent family,,,definetely............

tough one Mayor. only response I can think to give is a statistic from justice dept concerning 1996 - 2006, 78% of ppl incarcerated come from single mother homes, which make up approx 30% of the population. Maybe it takes both, even if it is a tad bit on the unhappy side for the parents?


"runs and ducks for cover from the flaming darts headed his way"

A good one parent family. No doubt about it!

A good one parent family. That was easy...where's the challenge?

i agree

well I kinda was raise in a one parent family Im the youngest of 3 and when I was about 10 I split from my 2 sisters to go live with my grandmother and always felt the love from her but I also grew up in a small town pop325 so I could never do anything with out my grandma knowin i always got in trouble before I got home so i would say a good one parent family if those are my opp

no parents at all!

I hope a good one parent family, thats what my son knows.

A good one parent family!

Here comes a flaming dart so you might wanna duck now

What about those that are raised by a single father home? None of them ever end up in jail or prison? Think you might wanna find more updated statistics. There are a huge number of men raising children on their own now and I find it hard to believe that none of the children they raised never found their way into trouble.

Your statistics sound abit Freudian to me.

This isn't so much a flaming dart as just a question. During the study that obtained those statistics, how many of those prisoners were asked if they came from a "good" home? Or, were they just asked if they came from a single parent home with the mother as the primary provider?

I always find it interesting that it takes two to have a child but when the Mother and Father do not live together it ceases to be a Family in the adults eyes when if the Child sees and interacts with both they see themselves as a family.

It also surprises me that when a child is raised by a single mother they rarely say anything about the fact that a guy didn't show up and do his share; so who is really at fault?

Am I the only single Mom who is tired of having everything that is wrong with society blamed on us? I'm sure if a poll was taken of every single Mom in the US, the number who would say they chose to raise their children alone would be minuscle.I'm sure the same thing could be said of single Dads. There is such a thing as a good parent and a bad parent. Let's try asking inmates if they were raised by good parents or bad parents instead of single Parents and see what kind of statistics we get. Having studied some psychology in college I tend to go with the theory that nuture plays a more vital role than enviroment in the raising of a child.

Redd, your question is also my question (posted above). Were the people of the statistical study asked if they came from a "good" single parent home or a "bad" single parent home?

The stats add some material to the discussion but they leave that particular question out of the equation it seems. And, we don't really know what "good" and "bad" mean here because it was not defined. It has ultimately been left to each of us to perceive the meaning of those two words on our own.

Without the question from above being answered, we can not possibly make an educated decision concerning the use of that study and it's value towards answering the thread question effectively.

Oh, and, Redd, I don't blame single mom's for the downfall of society. I blame the entire human race for the stupid choices we have made. And, yes, this includes me and you.

To answer Mirrors question, I believe that it is better to have been raised in a 'good' single parent home rather than a 'bad' two parent home. Having been raised in both for various portions of my childhood I would take the 'good' single parent home everytime.

The people who populate our jails and prisons are there because of the choices they made in their lives not because they were raised in either a single parent home or a two parent home. Plain and simple.

Good one parent family.