On the whole, Angie, who'd grown up in an entirely female household, didn't have a lot of faith in men.

This so-called apartment, this life, preys on them all, but most of all on Kenny, who, at 18, is a restless young man in a female household.

Even in a female household, she'd grown up with the stray fist flying.

"A lot of my scouts come from single-parent female households," Mr. Coleman said.

Judy's mother, Inga-Lisa Wheat, lives with them, with a male cat breaking up the female household.

She was born two months after the death of her father and thus grew up together with her mother and aunts in an all female household.