Non-Family Violence

Charlotte Allen, the Independent Women's Forum, on a recent story authored by a respected sociologist noting 7 shocking child deaths in NY in the last four months:

But no one, at least no one in the elite media, wants to talk about the data, recorded over and over by social sciences, and most recently by a team of 16 scholars that included Wilcox, and all pointing in one direction: Children who grow up in single-parent households or in families where the parents haven’t married, are many times more likely to become victims of child abuse and even murder, by the male adult in their lives who’s not married to their mothers or not related biologically to the children. As Wilcox writes: "Married parents have enduring legal, moral and social ties to each other and to their children. Such ties increase the likelihood that each parent will monitor and support the other’s parenting."

Allen points out:

Yet still, the family-life bureaucrats and the media that write about them, continue to insist that any "stable relationship" (that’s the jargon for a live-in boyfriend) is exactly equal to a marriage when it comes to the kids’ welfare. That’s why you see the signs on the subway, "Stop Family Violence." No, it’s non-family violence that we’re talking about.

Believe me, it’s always the mother’s boyfriend. Always the mother’s boyfriend.