Reply to NYT Article on "Rise of Single-Parent Families is Not a Good Thing"

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My grandmother who had her babies during ww2 and after was widowed when my mom was 13
All her kids did ok in life, uncle is engineer, aunt a school teacher, another became editor. Another a preschool teacher who married a lawyer who later became a judge

They would have been better off if there had not been a death in the famiy, but probably would have also ended up in the same professions and careers[/quote]

This kind of post is useless.  We all know people who grew up with single parents who turned out great.  That is not the point.  The point is that data on populations show that kids who are born to unmarried women are more likely to be poor, do less well in school, use substances, etc. etc.  We have incentivized being single with our welfare system and it has wrought terrible outcomes.  [/quote]

+100. My siblings and I were raised by a single mother and are all successful in our personal and professional lives. I still can understand that data and science indicates on average children are much better off with two stable parents in the home. [/quote]

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