A debate over the role of single-mother families and crime.
Tag: single mothers
Single mothers’ hardships
Employment down, poverty up, TANF non-responsive; lots of financial, health, food and housing hardship.
TOTN: Challenges for single parents
Pitching the value of parenthood and the goal of reducing inequality for single parents and their children.
Flattering motherhood, still
Hopefully we can agree that that the true measure of motherhood is somewhere between “toughest job in the world” and “nothing.”
Poverty, single mothers and mobility
Single and/or married. Relative poverty rates help set the policy agenda.
Single parents, crime and incarceration
It looks more like incarceration causes single-parent families than single-parent families cause crime.
Three things about poverty and family structure
In this recession, only a quarter of the increase in poverty is among families with single mothers.
Cohabitation dustup followup thoughts
Just a few roundup thoughts and graphs on the cohabitation-is-bad-for-kids thing.
Welfare doesn’t keep up
Given the onerous restrictions, stingy payments, and heavy social stigma, the increase in families on TANF truly reflects the desperation of those with nowhere else to turn.