{"id":3701,"date":"2012-10-23T21:58:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T02:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2013-11-12T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:03:12","slug":"gun-violence-and-single-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2012\/10\/23\/gun-violence-and-single-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Violence and Single Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Vectorportal on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorportal.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 0px;\" alt=\"Gun Vector Image\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8465\/8113531852_07fd9dcf4d_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Vectorportal.com via flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the second Presidential debate, a comment that linked single parents and gun violence prompted much response in the Twittersphere.\u00a0 It also prompted <em>Time Health &amp; Family\u2019s<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2012\/10\/19\/tracing-the-link-between-single-moms-and-gun-violence\/\">Belinda Luscombe to ask<\/a>, \u201cIs there a correlation between single parents and gun violence?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on the research of sociologist <a href=\"http:\/\/familyinequality.wordpress.com\/\">Philip Cohen<\/a>, Luscombe shows that understanding this relationship requires more than simply fact-checking a candidate\u2019s statements.\u00a0 \u00a0Citing Cohen, she notes that while the number of single moms has increased since 1990, the number of violent crimes has been going down.<\/p>\n<p>However, this doesn\u2019t negate other benefits that may be associated with two-parent families in certain contexts.\u00a0 Numerous studies have shown that children who grow up in stable two-parent households perform better across a range of social indicators. \u00a0For many, these benefits likely stem from the fact that stable two-parent families generally have more resources. \u00a0However,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are other issues besides money: children from low-income single-parent families are more likely to have less parental supervision and support, simply because the parent is under much more time and economic pressure. With only one parent to do all the disciplining, the relationship can get very strained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, this doesn&#8217;t necessarily link to gun violence. \u00a0Anecdotally, Luscombe also quickly checked data on the 12 most recent mass shootings in the U.S.\u00a0 Out of these, six of the shooters were raised in two-parent families, while three were raised by single parents.\u00a0 (And it\u2019s difficult to trace the family structure of the other three.)\u00a0 So, single parenting may be tough on children in certain circumstances, but the link between gun violence and single parenting is rather murky (if present at all).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the second Presidential debate, a comment that linked single parents and gun violence prompted much response in the Twittersphere.\u00a0 It also prompted Time Health &amp; Family\u2019s Belinda Luscombe to ask, \u201cIs there a correlation between single parents and gun violence?\u201d Drawing on the research of sociologist Philip Cohen, Luscombe shows that understanding this relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39116,17258,4374],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-crime","tag-gun-violence","tag-parenting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4513,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}