I don’t know how accurate this article is but I lean on the side of them being correct since I have read other articles that indicate women tend to hit poverty after divorce.
http://www.familyfacts.org/briefs/8/marriage-and-poverty
Ironic, since women initiate divorce twice as often as men.
It almost certainly IS true (at least in broad terms), but as they also bury, just past the provocative headline, the reason why. Those distinctions are almost entirely due to life choices made by the people in question. It’s going to be very hard to alter this situation in a way that is both just and/or makes economic sense.
Try widowed senior women who live on just SS checks. They make to much to qualify for Food Stamps, or the amount is $10-30, not worth the trip and hours to go get it, if they can still drive. The USDA food give away, in Millington, TN has tippled with elderly seniors both men and women, most are widows or widowers since 0 came into office. With just SS as income. NO COLA’s in 3 yrs, then half went to Medicare. So you got a whopping $40 extra a month. Not even 4 days of groceries or gas to go get them.
Should something happen to my husband, since we have only been married 6 yrs this Sept, we were both widowers, I do not qualify for his Navy Pension. I will have to live on my SS check. I was a stay at home mom for to long, only 7 yrs in the work force, not enough quarters in. I draw off my late husband’s SS, while the government KEPT what I paid in for those 7 yrs.
I didn’t. I kicked Hubby 1.0’s dust off my feet and happily got a great job and met my current husband there. We’ll be married 35 years in a few months, God willing.