Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
by blindriver on Friday January 10, 2025 @06:27PM
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None of this matters if the children grow up in a single-parent household. Keeping a two parent household has an outsized influence on the children's development and needs to be a cultural shift in our society.
Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
by ketzo on Friday January 10, 2025 @07:31PM
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It can absolutely matter, and in fact it is all the more important in a single-parent household.
You’re right that single vs. two parent household is the largest contributing factor. You’re wrong that it means that no other factors matter at all.
Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
by scelerat on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:25PM
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"single parent households" are precisely why these levers are important: among other things, they help reduce the disadvantages some kids have due to being raised by an impoverished single parent, and gives those kids a leg up in a way which will foster more stable home life and less likelihood of themselves becoming single parents.
Even before we get to corporate demographics or college graduation, admittance, and application rates, there are millions of children growing up in poverty in the US. Relatively inexpensive social welfare investments can mitigate many of the worst effects, even for those who don't decide to become software engineers.