The above report deals only in well established facts and clearly gives the lie to those supporters of lone parenthood. When Claire Rayner and others say that 'To assume that having two parents together is necessarily better is one of the fantasies' they are clearly indulging in woolly thinking which flies in the face of these facts. It is this woolly thinking, and the reluctance in the UK to face hard and unpleasant facts, which do not fit society's preconceived ideas, that prevents research into such subjects as female abuse of children, and, when such research is undertaken, to prevent its publication. However, for those readers who wish to check out the facts for themselves I print below two lists of research papers etc from Canada and the USA which have better track records in such research. Given the fact that in all research into family matters, the similarity in all Western countries is amazingly close, I think we can ignore the fact that the evidence is not UK based.
Mothers are perpetrators of abuse upon children at least equally with fathers.
Mothers accounted for 38 deaths, fathers accounted for 12 and 13 were ascribed to both parents. Dr Cyril Greenland, University of Toronto. In 50 out of 57 cases, women were found to be the child abuser. Evidence was found that mothers are more likely than fathers to be abusive. In 1993 there were 46,683 child maltreatment investigations undertaken by all 54 children's aid societies.