Posted on 08/30/2024 1:53:15 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Single-mother families make up one in five American families with children under 18. I grew up in one of them.
Solo parenting is no easy feat. Even though my Philadelphia childhood was filled with happy memories, we went through hardship, too. I remember how stressed my mom would get about making ends meet. In high school, while I spent hours on homework, she was in court fighting not to lose our house.
Too many single moms like mine face unnecessary economic insecurity that jeopardizes the wellbeing of their families. While some argue marriage is the best solution, what really uplifts single moms and their families are policies that support working women and foster a strong social safety net.
Many single parents — more than four-in-five of whom are single moms — serve as both their family’s sole breadwinner and caregiver. The rise in dual-income families, where both parents work, puts single-parent families at an income disadvantage and at higher risk of economic insecurity.
My new analysis for the Center for American Progress found that single moms work at higher rates than married moms. Despite that, 28 percent of single moms fall below the federal poverty line. Poverty rates are even worse for Black single moms, who make up almost 30 percent of all single moms in the country. And for the almost 16 million children in single-mom families, the risk of living in poverty can have deeply adverse effects.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I applaud your accomplishments as a women, wife, and mother.
if you can’t feed them don’t breed them...
At least a burglar knows he is a POS. These women think they are righteous.
Surely you don’t mean abort them?
Ay, por favor-es una broma? That is one of the weirdest ideas I’ve read in awhile-and I’ve never seen or heard of it in all my years as a case manager, sometimes working with some really, really odd clients. I don’t know any men who would choose a girlfriend or amante/mistress like that, either...
In other words,“We don’t need no stinkin’ morals! We just need more financial support to be amoral - gimme dat!
Ladies, a father is responsible for every child.
Find him, stupid people.
“Decent Society”; yes, those were the days.
whatever you subsidize, you get more of.
It’s a safety web, not a safety net.
I got to raise 2 girls when the egg donor decided to discover herself.
Is financial support no longer required of the sperm donor? Or is it too much bother or legal work to chase the scoundrel down and make him pay? After all Uncle Sam will put the bill. We don’t need those stinking men!
Thank you sir...
I think their kids would be better off in an orphanage.
That's a lie. What someone else makes has no bearing on my ability to make ends meet, or not.
Their own life choices put them higher risk for economic insecurity.
Liberal women love the government as their spouse. The government allows them to carouse all they want without penalty. Free abortions. Free welfare. No consequences!
This is exactly what happens when any society unhooks themselves from God and from divine moral guidance. A free-for-all with the demand, through the force of government, that no one “judge them” by telling them the truth.
“Single moms,” and the men who knock them up, need to stop creating through selfish behavior the children they expect the rest of us to be obligated to pay for, whatever the consequences to the children, and for the nation.
“ How about making better life choices then begging for welfare when you F up? Am I wrong? ”
No but you left out making the deadbeat men support their offspring rather than welfare.
“ This is why the 19th Amendment was such a catastrophe; women vote for government to be their Sugar Daddy.”
The men who impregnate them should pay.
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