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		ailideex on Jan 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poverty hurts children in ways we're beginning to ... 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...

ska on Jan 28, 2020 [–]

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.

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