Re:Poverty hurts children in ways we're beginning to understand
by ailideex on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:52PM
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I think we completely rule out cases where people were in a good financial position and could provide for children and cases where people were using birth control child poverty will remain virtually unchanged.
https://www.businessinsider.com/parents-determine-child-succ...
> The researchers further suggest that the "fraction of children living in single-parent households is the strongest correlation of upward income mobility among all the variables we explored."
See also: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/single-mothers-new-yo...
Re:Poverty hurts children in ways we're beginning to understand
by ska on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:58PM
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It's a complicated issue. I don't know enough to have a strong opinion on it, but I do know enough to know that a lot of the research is contentious.
The black/white thinking espoused above, though: I doubt it leads to real insight or improvements.
1) They have always been struggling, a didn't have a reasonable plan originally, and/or
2) They didn't take reasonable precautions to avoid pregnancy but still end up pregnant, and believe their best option was to raise the child
Both of these assumptions are clearly false in general although I don't know enough about the issues to hesitate a guess on percentages.
I was mostly thinking about (1). Someone with a partner and a solid household income can easily become a struggling single parent, for example, without having made any obviously bad decisions.