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.

I don't have time right now to read the whole article Hil, but I assume they back this up:

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

With the stipulation that the abuse is at the hands of the custodial parent, right?

snuggling may have been the wrong word. Sharing furniture in close proximity to cats is more accurate.

With the stipulation that the abuse is at the hands of the custodial parent, right?

It looks like the article is focusing specifically on abuse within the home. So abuse by a day care provider wouldn't be counted, but abuse by a mother's live-in boyfriend would.