And there's not really enough evidence to show that men are any better at it. Take all those kids been raised by single mothers in the inner cities, and turn them over to their fathers, and wanna' guess what would happen to the "statistics"?
Single, irresponsible, impoverished parents are not very good parents. That's about all we can deduce right now.
Either you didn't read the article, or you missed that the author has already normalized the data against the total single parent household figures:
"Eighty-five percent of prisoners, 78% of high school dropouts, 82% of teenage girls who become pregnant, the majority of drug and alcohol abusers—all come from single-mother-headed households. Less than 1% of any of these categories come from single-father-headed households. This seems to indicate that the problems children encounter are not related to single-parent households, but are related specifically to single-mother-headed households.The article then goes on to say:
"However, these afflictions were surprisingly uncommon in the 15% of single-parent households headed by men."Did you get that? Roughly eighty percent of the problem kids are coming from the roughly eighty-five percent of single-parent homes headed by women, less than one percent of the problem kids are coming from the fifteen percent of single-parent homes headed by men.
Conclusion? Men certainly are better at parenting alone than are women. If you don't like it, go dig up some figures of your own.