Women are different. The moment they become mothers their role changes. It's more of a switch society flips for them. So single mothers are probably the most in

Women are different. The moment they become mothers their role changes. It's more of a switch society flips for them. So single mothers are probably the most independent and competent of any demographic. Unfortunately high paying work is hard to come by with both ageism and sexism in the work place. My conclusions are not half-baked. They are baked into my being. I was raised by a single mother in Japan, then was fortunate to travel the world. She is also a professor in anthropology. "Delicate balance of paradoxes" is half baked. I would be more qualified than anyone to talk about cultural paradoxes because according to you I'm probably full of them. But being in Los Angeles now I can say with confidence there are no paradoxes between cultures or race. We are all just people. Paradoxes only happen between words, and words do not own us, except, for some people they do. But that is not a paradox. That is a mere hardship.