The lamestream media told you:
A child tragically killed his sibling with the gun of his mother’s live-in boyfriend this week in Phoenix (12/9/06). Guns are obviously dangerous and something should be done about this.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The “news” media may pose an even greater risk to children than guns left floating about by reckless live-in boyfriends, experts said today.
Although the media is fairly diligent about gun homicide stories, the effects of tobacco, obesity and unhealthful foods, and the expensive but ineffective programs to combat these horrors, they have fully neglected to point out the severe dangers of single parenting on kids. The dead child was living with a single parent, a fact that was glossed over.
The risk of fatal abuse to such children is 73 times greater than for children with married parents, a Heritage Foundation study has found. Children living with cohabiting parents are three times more likely to have behavioral disorders than children who have married parents. Expulsion rates, disciplinary actions and learning problems show similar effects.
Headlines on the harmful effects of “non-traditional” families, exploding rates of out-of-wedlock births, and huge increases in single-parent or cohabiting non-parent families have failed to appear in the news, for reasons which remain unclear. The effect of this hidden danger is severe, experts believe.
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