I don’t think I’m being defensive. I was agreeing with you, or so I thought.
Yes I agree it’s not best for your kids but what do you do if it’s out of your control??
Husband dies. Or he’s a Jack A$$ and leaves. It ain’t good for the kids but some women have to deal with it.
In the mean time....”We almost all had single moms” HUH?
Yes, I didn’t understand that either. I think the majority of the people here came from two-parent families.
(I did come from a ‘single Dad’ family - but his mother was there and largely raised me.)
I think most people STILL come from two-parent families; even though the government made it somewhat lucrative a few decades ago for many women to push out babies but remain single...
The US Bureau of Census relates:
1300 new stepfamilies are forming every day.
Over 50% of US families are remarried or re-coupled.
The average marriage in America lasts only seven years.
One out of two marriages ends in divorce.
75% remarry
66% of those living together or remarried break up, when children are involved.
80% of remarried, or re-coupled, partners with children both have careers.
50% of the 60 million children under the age of 13 are currently living with one biological parent and that parent’s current partner.