I think it’s worth noting what the report says about family structures that fall in neither category—both married and unmarried parents where one parent isn’t biologically related to the child but still takes on a parental role as well as single parents without a partner fall somewhere in between married biological parents and single parents with partner in terms of child abuse rates.
(I was a bit confused and thought ‘single parents with partner’ included cases in which the partner takes on parental responsibility so the high rate seemed off to me.)
I think it’s worth noting what the report says about family structures that fall in neither category—both married and unmarried parents where one parent isn’t biologically related to the child but still takes on a parental role as well as single parents without a partner fall somewhere in between married biological parents and single parents with partner in terms of child abuse rates.
(I was a bit confused and thought ‘single parents with partner’ included cases in which the partner takes on parental responsibility so the high rate seemed off to me.)