Clifton, interesting as always. My two cents, I grew up comfortably middle class until my parents divorced. After that, my dad struggled more than he would have liked because of child support and I grew up basically in poverty because my mom (with a college degree) couldn’t find a well paid position for most of my childhood. My elementary school was filled with single mothers, the recently divorced, recent immigrants/refugees, and low-income blue collar workers. Long way of saying, in my opinion the future lies in teaching kids to make better choices than their parents but the need now is to get the kids in poverty the tools (nutritional, emotional, psychological, and educational) that they probably aren’t getting at home.
Clifton, interesting as always. My two cents, I grew up comfortably middle class until my parents divorced. After that, my dad struggled more than he would have liked because of child support and I grew up basically in poverty because my mom (with a college degree) couldn’t find a well paid position for most of my childhood. My elementary school was filled with single mothers, the recently divorced, recent immigrants/refugees, and low-income blue collar workers. Long way of saying, in my opinion the future lies in teaching kids to make better choices than their parents but the need now is to get the kids in poverty the tools (nutritional, emotional, psychological, and educational) that they probably aren’t getting at home.
Thanks Amy! I agree with you that we should do what we can to help single mothers. That's why I included a link to Robert Cherry's recent essay.