” Without this under-pinning, all you get is educated fools.”
Lest I be pelted by a multitude of “successful single-mom” anecdotes, I should qualify the above with the word “generally”.
Obviously, there have been single-mo success stories of the highest order. But these are (generally) the exception, rather than the rule - especially where you see generational lapses of an active father being in the home.
sigh... “single-mo” = single-mom