And to make things even worse, they don't have the same electoral potential. Stripping voting rights from felons is incredibly immoral, IMO.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-v...

Unequal enforcement of the law is certainly a major problem, but I have no objections to excluding from governance oversight those people who refuse to comply with that governance.

Nowhere in that link does single-parenting affects educational outcomes.

I know couple of people who are unwed couples but they claim to be single mom and work partime so they get daycare assistance. Not sure how widespread this because that might be inflating the single mother numbers.