human brains are varied and there's no one single way a family should be structured. Kids need adults who are reliably there, keep them safe and love them, and there's a ton of different forms this can take.
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Traditionalists are invested in how much any specific kind of parenting or family actually matters- even though data don't show this and we would expect some convergence in family structure across cultures to make optimal kids if this was the case. Human development is resilient.
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Most data that shows bad effects of father absence is confounded by the fact that the kid also got genes from a dad who either couldn't stay or didn't choose to stay. Kids whose dads die in war or accidents don't have the same problems.
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Both of these from who looked specifically at accelerated pubertal timing in girls - the genetic confound hasn't been adequately addressed in other literature IIRC royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.109
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