Our culture requires fathers

American Interest: But some of the detailed findings on the trouble single mother families face make for some bleak reading:

Single mothers tend to be younger than two-parent households raising children, and nearly half have never been married. And they are in a more fragile financial state than households with two parents. Two-thirds of single-mother families had income under $40,000 in the previous year, and most have very little money in reserves: About half have virtually no net worth, while three-quarters of two-parent families have positive net worth. Single mothers report owing personal loans to friends and family at a higher rate than two-parent households (19 percent versus 11 percent) and are twice as likely to have past-due bills (26 percent versus 13 percent).

A read through the whole report points to the unavoidable conclusion that a major goal of social policy has to be the formation of two-parent households.

OK, women and men need to recognize proper parenting, and that includes  mom and dad, at least.   This is an unavoidable conclusion, and we cannot afford government parents, the pension costs are way to high.  Coming out of  middle school, every child should understand the bleak existence of single  parent households.