According to a recent poll from the Pew Research Center, 7 out of 10 Americans believe single mothers are bad for society. They polled 2,691 people about different types of family situations: including gay people raising children, unmarried couples living together, and mothers working outside the home. Respondents fell into three groups: 31% accepted most non-traditional family arrangements, and 32% had the opposite view. The remaining 37% were okay with most family arrangements, except for single motherhood.
Rich Morin, a Pew senior editor and author of the report, told The Washington Post the skeptics’ view of single motherhood may be rooted in experience.
“We see gay and lesbian couples raising children in loving environments,” he said. “We see young mothers going off to work and coming home to raise happy, well-adjusted children. Then we see the sometimes tragic consequences of single parenthood, with just one person juggling so many roles.”
My question is why did they not ask about the fathers? It takes two people to make a baby, a majority of the time, they should ask why people don’t frown upon men who make babies and then don’t stick around to help raise them. The research is slim, less than 3,000 people, I don’t think this is the voice of America at all. What do you think?
