dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
all of those are correlated to socioeconomic conditions...and single mothers are more highly represented in lower economic classes, correlation, not causation - the cause is poverty. and most of those stats have decreased in the US, mainly due to efforts to stop over-policing non violent crime and intervention/education programs, while single parenthood has increased - again, disproving single moms as being the devil. furthermore, they've done studies and shown children in more affluent single mother households do nearly or just as well as two parent homes - once again proving economics to be the driver of life outcomes.I'm curious to see if there is research demonstrating a correlation between crime, incarceration, prostitution, drug use, etc. and kids being raised by single mothers...say there was, would you agree at that point that it might not be a boogeyman?
so again no, single moms are not your boogey man...if you look across the world, places where people still get married/are forced to marry, poverty/poor socioeconomic mobility drives poor life outcomes, this has always been true.