one of you slow-cooker people need to come stay with me for a week or so and try out recipes for me & mac (spend your days watching movies and snuggling cats). also -t should come out for a stay. I am JUST SAYING! my lovely backyard and an empty house during the days and ME! to entertain each evening, more people should be visiting me. (ignore all previous posts about emotionally unstable household and extreme clutter).

mmmmm spring rolls were THE YUM!

I'd say it's more the other way around. The single parents are trying to get the kids away from an abusive spouse.

I say bah-N0-BOW (you say BON-uh-bow...huh, that doesn't quite scan. Calling the whole thing off)

spend your days watching movies and snuggling cats

Ugh. Cat-snuggling. That's gross.

I have realised that my home desk is more spartan than my work desk.

However, I haven't eaten at my dining room table in over a month. Still, I don't work there either, I just rest things. I have scads and scads of paper all over my apartment, but none of it is in process. It's either unopened/unfiled mail, or drawings I haven't worked out where to store (and I have drawn just the once in 4 months). I'm incredibly messy, but somehow it's not a desk thing. It's an everywhere else thing.

Is it true that single parents are more likely abusers? I've never read that anywhere, but I've also never studied demographic trends in child abuse.

HHS says yes. [link]

Children living with single parents may be at higher risk of experiencing physical and sexual abuse and neglect than children living with two biological parents.45 Single parent households are substantially more likely to have incomes below the poverty line. Lower income, the increased stress associated with the sole burden of family responsibilities, and fewer supports are thought to contribute to the risk of single parents maltreating their children.

maybe it is the same studies that show gay parents are bad for children. Or the ones that show abstinance only sex-ed programs decrease teen pregnancy. Or the ones that show providing women's health care to low-income women increases abortions. Or that providing contraception increases horrible unspeakable things.

Huh. Obama has a Tumblr. [link] Ouch.

In better news, the Blunt amendment was voted down in the senate. Olympia Snow was the only R to cross the aisle and vote "this is batshit crazy."

I've been reading how her decision to not run makes Maine go from a sure win for the Republicans to a must-win, with a lately unpopular Repub governer whipping up the opposition already. Way to send a message on your way out, Olympia.

From what I'm reading, it looks like a lot of it is that a lot of the factors that correlate strongly with child abuse (poverty, drug use) also correlate with single parenthood.

msbelle, I don't really snuggle my own cats, but I'll happily come make things in your slow cooker. If you make me cocktails.