July
19th
  8:36:34 AM

Single motherhood: hard row to hoe

The New York Times investigates the rise of single-motherhood among lower class whites. "I don't think that anyone sets out, when I get older, I'm going to be a single parent," says this woman. It's pretty tough for a single mother and three kids to live on US$25,000.  



 
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