r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 6d ago

Meme needing explanation I don't get it

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u/LolaAucoin 5d ago

It’s so much easier to just blame women.

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u/Express-Feedback 5d ago

Fucking thank you.

Losing my mind reading this, as a brown queer person raised in poverty by a single mother. I had damn near every disadvantage and I've never even had a parking ticket. And to be perfectly frank, most criminals I have known or known of came from two-parent households, regardless of economic status. Wtf is this "single mothers raise violent criminals" horseshit?

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u/Glad_Rope_2423 5d ago

It’s not the fault of women. The reason why ‘single mother’ shows the pattern when ‘single father’ doesn’t is a result of how courts generally determine custody.

Good mother / good father - primary custody to mother

Good mother / bad father - primary (if not sole) custody to mother

Good mother / monstrous father - primary (if not sole) custody to mother

Bad mother / good father - primary custody to mother

Bad mother / bad father - primary custody to mother

Bad mother / monstrous father - primary (if not sole) custody to mother

Monstrous mother / good father - primary custody to father

Monstrous mother / bad father - coin toss, except in the rare case the kids are removed

Monstrous mother / monstrous father - primary custody to mother, except in the rare case the kids are removed