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While feminists and many of their liberal allies portray single motherhood as a fully viable and acceptable alternative to the two-parent family, the facts tell a strikingly different story. A study done by the National Center for Health Statistics in 1988 found that children in single-parent families are far more likely to drop out of high school, get pregnant as teenagers, use drugs, and break the law than their counterparts in two-parent households...
Even worse, children from single-parent families are more likely to end up as single-parents themselves, thereby extending the vicious legacy of illegitimacy to another generation. In addition, the growing number of single-parent households only makes it more difficult for the welfare system to achieve its goal of ending poverty. The best way to end poverty is to ensure that America's poor are able to find jobs so that they can support their families without government assistance, yet the widespread existence of single-parent households makes this nearly impossible...
...current level of welfare benefits as the minimum necessary for a family to survive, then a single parent must make the equivalent of $10 per hour to support his or her family. In an economy where the average wage rate barely exceeds $12, it is very difficult for most poor single parents to find a job paying $10 an hour, considering their lack of education and of significant job skills...
...result has been that the more than $5.4 trillion dollars expended on welfare since 1960 has achieved little in terms of reducing the overall rate of poverty. While the poverty rate for two-parent households has declined, the increase in single-parent households has more than made up the difference...
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