Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "Chris Bennett: A close-to-home solution for accessible childcare | TED" video.

Single motherhood has horrific outcomes. Some things are considered child abuse because of the long term consequences of those things on kids. Measured honestly in the same fashion, single motherhood is the most horrible form of child abuse. Better to have been beaten and raped, the long term consequences aren't as dire.
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@MandaB28 Thanks, I am also sorry if you were raped or beaten. There are plenty of horrible abusers out there that say they love you when they really don't know what love even is. I don't mean to undermine the experiences of people who were tragically harmed like that. I just want to point out that people seem to be more resiliant to that than to personal problems stemming from a childhood of growing up with a single mother. Literally, people who were rape victims as children fare better in the long term on average than children raised by single mothers do in the long term on average. Yes some single mothers are great, they are superb people with much greater ability, time, and resources than the majority of single mothers could ever reasonably dream about having. But most single mothers are not that, and it is the exception, not the rule.
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