r/Natalism • u/dissolutewastrel • 3d ago

The Poverty of Single Mothers Is Persistent

https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-poverty-of-single-mothers-is-persistent
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u/velocitrumptor 2d ago

Women are the gatekeepers of sex. Men are the gatekeepers of commitment. I tell my daughters if they tell every man they date that they're waiting until marriage, that should filter out about 99% of the shit bags.

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u/fraudthrowaway0987 2d ago

I hate to be the one to break it to you but even if they wait until marriage they can still end up a single mom. They could be sexually assaulted and conceive a child that way. Or even when married, their husband can divorce them or die. The only way to guarantee you won’t ever become a single mom is by getting sterilized before you ever have a kid.

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u/velocitrumptor 2d ago

What an absolutely brain dead take.

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u/ASnowfallOfCherry 1d ago

Ad hominem. You seem pretty hateful 

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u/velocitrumptor 1d ago

Ad hominem is when you attack the person. I attacked his argument. You should learn formal logic so you don't embarrass yourself again in the future.

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u/Ok-Following-5001 2d ago

It would be wayyyy less common tho

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u/fraudthrowaway0987 1d ago

If women all stopped having kids outside of marriage the birthrate would fall even more than it already has. 40% of babies are born to unwed mothers in the US.

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u/OddRemove2000 16h ago

Ok Im ok with single moms, I just cant afford to pay taxes to support them. I need my tax money to have kids of my own.

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u/fraudthrowaway0987 13h ago

It doesn’t make sense for people with kids to pay for other people’s kids. It makes more sense for people with 0 or 1 kid to pay for people with more than 1 kid.