By Bella DePaulo, PsychCentral, July 16, 2019
Mention single parents and someone will immediately claim that their children are doomed. They will insist that they have scientific evidence on their side. Often, these people don’t really understand how to interpret scientific findings because they’ve had no training. Sometimes, though, the people making such claims are fully grown researchers who should know better.
I have been studying the research on the children of single parents ever since I started working on my first book about single people, Singled Out. I found that:
(1) Yes, it is easy to find studies that appear to show that the children of single parents are doing worse than the children of married parents – but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are doing worse because they are in a single-parent household, and if only they were raised by married parents, they’d be doing great.
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