Re: Importance of virginity in major religions
Really? statistics from the developed world say otherwise:
According to the Office for National Statistics:
10% of children in the UK face severe emotional or behavioural problems that burden their families.
16% of children from single-parent families experience a mental health problem compared with 8% from two-parent families .
Child - Parent Relationship and Potential Problems | Doctor | Patient.co.uk
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Drinking problems. **Teenagers living in single-parent households are more likely to abuse alcohol and at an earlier age compared to children reared in two-parent households
A study of 156 victims of child sexual abuse found that the majority of the children came from disrupted or single-parent homes; only 31 percent of the children lived with both biological parents.
**Suicidal Tendencies. **In a study of 146 adolescent friends of 26 adolescent suicide victims, teens living in single-parent families are not only more likely to commit suicide but also more likely to suffer from psychological disorders, when compared to teens living in intact families.
Facts on Fatherless Kids
Statistically, a child in a single-parent household is far more likely to experience violence, commit suicide, continue a cycle of poverty, become drug dependent, commit a crime or perform below his peers in education.
According to the Single Parent Success Foundation, a national nonprofit that encourages educational opportunities for single parents:
• 63 percent of suicides nationwide are individuals from single-parent families.
• 75 percent of children in chemical dependency hospitals are from single-parent families.
• More than half of all youths incarcerated in the U.S. lived in one-parent families as a child.
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20121125/NEWS01/311250054/single-parents-Ozarks-poverty?nclick_check=1
Recently, a 16-year-old boy killed his single mother with a claw hammer because she took away his Play Station. Ninety students at a Memphis high school are either pregnant or lactating as we speak. Baby mamas are brawling at Chuck-E-Cheese over trifling baby daddies. Well-fed fourth grade black boys can’t read as well hungry, poor white boys. The C.D.C. recently conducted a study that said family structure can negatively influence children’s health.
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First no one disagrees that 2 parents household is the best environment for raising children.
2nd, your post is based on wrong assumptions b/c not all children coming from single households are born out of wedlock. In many cases children born out wedlock still have 2 parents. They may just not be married. Also, some of the children your taking about maybe coming from divorce parents. In fact, any psychologist will tell you that divorce can have lasting and harmful impact on an early development of a child. So, the family dynamics are changing & traditional idea of family will displeasure in next 50 years in developed countries.