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That study is observational, not experimental. Maybe genes for disagreeableness make parents abuse their children, and they pass those genes on to their offspring. Probably both nature and nurture contribute.
Certainly. Correlation isn't causation. One hurdle is that any experimental study of this phenomenon would be highly unethical.
But all is not lost. Single-parent households are also associated with higher risk of juvenile delinquency. I'll see if I can dig up a study of children abused by foster parents or step-parents.
Single-parent households are also associated with higher rates of parental divorce and teenage pregnancy.
I think I remember reading what happens if you only look at single-parent households where the other parent got sick and died, but I don't remember the answer.
Not always. It might be possible that there are orphanage systems where children are randomly assigned to either orphanage A or orphanage B. If you go to Africa to set up such a system you can add special funding to one of the two orphanages to raise it's quality much higher than that of the average African orphanage.
You can also split test different educational philosophies that way.