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> Therefore it can make sense for some women who have children out of wedlock and continue to look for suitable mate. That's the problem really. Making life be
by FT_intern 10y ago
> Therefore it can make sense for some women who have children out of wedlock and continue to look for suitable mate.
That's the problem really. Making life better for single mothers is unnecessarily increasing the number of children with single parents. It is just treating the symptom.
The cause is that mothers who are not ready to raise children bring a pregnancy to term. We can attack this in a two ways:
1. Planned parenthood campaigns that make potential mothers believe that they will not be able to handle adulthood
2. Stigmatizing single motherhood
What about the children? The socialized care is already there for them so these incentives shouldn't affect them much.
- meric 10y agoIMO instead of directly manipulating choices, other solutions can be found - lower cost of living, to encourage people to plan to get married and have children, tax incentives for parents living in the same house, and encouraging gender segregation in schools and high schools to prevent teenage pregnancies.