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In Reply to: Thoughts on "the land of opportunity" posted by E-Stat on June 29, 2021 at 09:18:05:
There's been a movement to celebrate single motherhood for some time. The problem is that when you combine teen mothers with a lack of education and without a partner, you get poverty causing more generational poverty.
Some pregnancies are mistakes and some women do make it work. However, all too often, young women seem to believe that if they get pregnant, he will love her and life will be a happy home with the white picket fence.
Sadly, the fairy tale is rarely their reality.
-Rod
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Follow Ups
- Blame feminism... - Rod M 06/29/2111:30:11 06/29/21 (20)
- Blame conservatives who block family support mechanisms like child care. Also, blocking - tinear 14:42:39 06/29/21 (0)
- Sadly, some don't understand this equation... - E-Stat 11:42:53 06/29/21 (18)
- The equation is perfectly clear. Some don't understand how their attitudes indirectly exacerbate the problem. - jdaniel@jps.net 11:56:27 06/29/21 (0)
- On the other hand... - ghost of olddude55 11:49:51 06/29/21 (16)
- RE: On the other hand... - E-Stat 11:54:56 06/29/21 (15)
- Not in my experience. - ghost of olddude55 12:16:49 06/29/21 (14)
- RE: Not in my experience. - E-Stat 12:28:34 06/29/21 (11)
- Any stats comparing whites to blacks are worthless UNLESS - tinear 14:49:51 06/29/21 (3)
- The underlying challenge - E-Stat 14:53:54 06/29/21 (2)
- Have you studied urban decline? Suburban flight? Redline districting? - tinear 15:31:57 06/29/21 (1)
- Yours is the last word - E-Stat 15:33:28 06/29/21 (0)
- Live births to unmarried mothers doesn't automatically correlate to generational poverty. - ghost of olddude55 12:35:28 06/29/21 (6)
- Return to the link I provided initially - E-Stat 12:40:03 06/29/21 (5)
- It's an opinion piece. - ghost of olddude55 12:53:38 06/29/21 (4)
- Backed by Census Bureau data - E-Stat 12:59:31 06/29/21 (3)
- Still an opinion... - ghost of olddude55 13:15:34 06/29/21 (2)
- IMHO her conclusion is correct, to wit: - Jay Buridan 14:04:35 06/29/21 (1)
- Exactly what I've been sayin'! - E-Stat 14:44:15 06/29/21 (0)
- Rise of Single Fathers: 9 fold increase since (fill in year when America was great here). - jdaniel@jps.net 12:22:09 06/29/21 (1)
- Some of it has to do with employability. - ghost of olddude55 12:32:40 06/29/21 (0)