Children of divorce: Child Abuse
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"Most victims of child molestation come from single parent households
or are the children of drug ring members."
Los Angeles Times, 16 September, 1985. Cited in Amneus, The Garbage Generation
"A child living in a female-headed home is ten times more likely to
be beaten or murdered."
The Legal Beagle, July, 1984. Cited in Amneus, The Garbage Generation, page
113
Rapists, murderers, lifers,
dropouts, abuse victims: mostly from broken homes
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on children of divorce, illegitimacy, and child abuse (Fagan & Hanks
1997) x
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of divorce on low-income boys (1994 Cornell U. study)
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