Don't know where the marriage part comes in
But generally kids go with their mum's if it's a split, so statistically more single-fathers are going to be widowed. If the mum is in too bad a state to look after the kids, then Social Services will certainly be looking into his lifestyle and it's likely that he'd have battled to get custody.

It's simply a numbers game. Certainly though, I think the single-parent shacked up with loser is generally far worse then the dedicated single-parent... irregardless of gender.
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