Moms are main breadwinners in 40% of households with children

[MadImmortalMan]

Percentage of the population that is married is at an all-time low. Soooo yeah. Add to that women making more scratch and this seems like a natural thing to expect.

[Valmy]

Percentage of the population that is married is at an all-time low. Soooo yeah. Add to that women making more scratch and this seems like a natural thing to expect.

We need to re-introduce the Lex Julia.

[Malthus]

The increase in mothers who outearn their husbands is a non-issue as a social concern - as the report notes, that's a segement of the population that tends on average to be quite well off. Those kids are, again on average, going to do okay. It's not even seen as a social issue by the average idiot - again, according to the report.

The big social problem is the increase in mothers who were never married. Those kids are, on average, more likely to grow up poor.

[Valmy]

The big social problem is the increase in mothers who were never married. Those kids are, on average, more likely to grow up poor.

Well there is also a rise in single dads...with alot of the same issues only slightly less bad.

[lustindarkness]

I dunno, it might lead to women wanting to drive.

Letting them drive would be almost as bad as letting them vote.

[The Brain]

The big social problem is the increase in mothers who were never married. Those kids are, on average, more likely to grow up poor.

Easily fixed by obligatory 5 minute marriages at 15 (10 for minorities).

[Malthus]

The big social problem is the increase in mothers who were never married. Those kids are, on average, more likely to grow up poor.

Well there is also a rise in single dads...with alot of the same issues only slightly less bad.

The report breaks it down into three groups:

(1) Mothers who earn more than their husbands;

(2) Single mothers who are divorced, seperated, widowed, etc.; and

(3) Mothers who never married in the first place.

Single dads tend to be the flipsde to grroup # (2). The number of men who, having never married at all, are nevertheless taking care of children is, I would assume, rather small compared to the female equivalent. Generally, ships passing in the night resulting in a pregnancy = the woman gets stuck dealing with it.

Of the three groups, group #3 is on average the worst off in that they are the most likely to be poor, and that poverty is (I would assert) strongly linked to their being in that group in the first place. Group #1 is likely to be the best off.   

[Valmy]

Of the three groups, group #3 is on average the worst off in that they are the most likely to be poor, and that poverty is (I would assert) strongly linked to their being in that group in the first place. Group #1 is likely to be the best off.   

Yep.  Probably why the single dads are less bad off as a group is because they are less likely to fit into group #3 and tend to be a bit older.

[Legbiter]

[Valmy]

I love that guy.  You can never figure out if he really is some right wing nutcase...or making fun of right wing nutcases.

[Ed Anger]

He needs to be more slobby and unshaven.

[fhdz]

I love that guy.  You can never figure out if he really is some right wing nutcase...or making fun of right wing nutcases.

The first panel is truly stupid, but the second panel made me laugh pretty hard.

[11B4V]

I love that guy.  You can never figure out if he really is some right wing nutcase...or making fun of right wing nutcases.

The first panel is truly stupid, but the second panel made me laugh pretty hard.

The fly.