Washington subsidizes single parenthood while reorienting retirement and old age care away from a multi-generational continuity.

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Estimates vary, but single parenthood can account from somewhere from 15 to a full 40% of income inequality.

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Among the poor, cohabitation is seen as normal and single parenthood merely regrettable.

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That might go a long way toward decoupling the rise in single parenthood from the rise in income inequality.

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Rising single parenthood is not a phenomenon unique to this country, however, although we have the highest rate of all the countries Legal Momentum examined.

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In the long term, poverty experts agree that efforts to reduce single parenthood by strengthening families, and to boost the wages of the unskilled through better education, are crucial.

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Single parenthood and low skills are a devastating combination.

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Is single parenthood the fundamental cause of poverty?

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Research carried out in Chicago's Woodlawn and Oakland districts by William Julius Wilson led this eminent Harvard sociologist to conclude that what lay behind single parenthood and the many difficulties it involves in bringing up children was unemployment and the black culture of the inner city.

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To cure the ills of single-parenthood, benefit-dependency and the like, he proposes a tougher welfare regime (though not all that different from the government's), tangible if unspecified support for marriage through the tax system and more job flexibility for parents.

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Komen Foundation, whose single decision against Planned Parenthood earlier this year ignited a social media firestorm and continues to cost them untold numbers of supporters and donations each day equaling millions of dollars in brand value.

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In "Act Like a Man, Think Like a Lady, " the single mother character is trying to date herself out of her parenthood predicament.

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