kootchman
Back up here… there are two “markers” that almost assure a life of poverty. First, out of wedlock parenthood or single parenthood. There is not much debate about it. The second marker is to not graduate from high school. With startling efficiency, single parenthood makes it a tough row to hoe. The higher the out of wedlock, the higher the percentage of single parent homes, the higher the poverty rate. Is is abuse? No. Does it add stress and anxiety? yes. It gets down to personal choices… there is an accounting for every one of them. Subsistance is a safety net… how much more beyond that should “we” provide before it is an incentive? He has a point, if I am feeding your children as a taxpayer, and they are so deprived of stimulus and parental engagement they have to go to daycare and head start… ” non marital parenthood is a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect. Single parents make up a third of all Wisconsin parents”. It said it is “A” contributing, as one cause, of abuse and neglect. That’s a fair statement. Over 40 per cent of births are out of wedlock, nationally.
“People who grew up in a financially secure situation find it easier to succeed in life, they are more likely to graduate from high school, more likely to graduate from college, and these are things that will lead to greater success in life,” Stephen Brown, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Womens Legal Defense Fund:
Poverty is widespread and severe in single mother families. According to the recently released Census Bureau data on poverty in 2010, people in single mother families had a poverty rate of 42.2% and an extreme poverty rate of 21.6%.
It it a certainty that abuse and neglect occur? No. Does it raise the probability? Yes. Woud it be an honest appraisal to ignore the facts? You can’t fix a problem you won’t define.