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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I am 100% pro women's reproductive rights, I think this argument is a bit of a strawman here.

This lessening emphasis for two parent households and the rise in support of single parent families has been happening long before the striking down of Roe v Wade.[/quote]

At the end of the day, the rise of single parent households is due to systemic economic factors: decline of real wages, unaffordability of housing, men opting out of education, rise of welfare state to fill the gap that has some perverse incentives for mothers to remain legally "single," rise of carceral state that removes men from families/work force, lack of universal healthcare, lack of mental health care/inpatient services, etc. So many of these factors are inter-related - e.g., rise of carceral state stems from the dismantlement of mental health services, which itself stems from employer-based health care framework.

At the very least, Roe gave women some semblance of control of their circumstances in the face of these glacial economic challenges. But if you un-do Roe the main effect will be the increase in single parent households, which leads to suboptimal social consequences. [/quote]

Asia is poorer than the us for the most part but has a lot less single parents

You are underplaying culture in your list of reasons [/quote]

The f#ck you talking about? Much of Asia is so dysfunctional when it comes to kids and marriages - Japan can't procreate, much of SE Asia abandons their kids to grandparents so the parents can go work in HK, Singapore, Dubai, the U.S., etc to send money home. In China, rural parents will go to the big cities and send money home (often not seeing their kids for years). I know multiple people whose parents sent them to the U.S. from Taiwan and China so the kid could be educated here and live with a distant aunt/uncle or cousin, often not seeing their birth parents for many years (especially prior to video calling).

Tons of single moms whose husbands abandoned them. And often those women are shunned by the community and not allowed to work (particularly in rural more conservative areas). Women functionally banned from owning property or opening credit in her own name. Divorce rates actually skyrocket in Asian countries that modernize their economies and become wealthier - this has been observed in South Korea, China, etc.

You really want to import these issues to the U.S.?[/quote]

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