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I found this gem, doing some research for something else.

Fits perfectly with a Roosh post from almost three years ago

And check out the beaut they feature. She's only 25.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article...ld-poverty


A dramatic increase in single-parent families is one of the biggest factors leading to greater childhood poverty in Iowa.

Single parents head 30 percent of all Iowa families with children. The trend is even more pronounced in black families, where two-thirds of families have a single parent at home.

On average, married couples in Iowa in 2010 earned three times as much as single mothers, who made less than $25,000. Two of five single moms lived in poverty that year.

“Unless you actually change the marriage rate, you are not going to do anything about poverty,” said Robert Rector, who has studied marriage patterns nationwide as a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C., think tank

Data from Bruner’s group show that in 2010, 70 percent of new mothers over 20 who lacked high school diplomas were unmarried. Only 9 percent of new mothers with bachelor’s degrees were single.

“It’s as if college-educated women have figured something out,” said Ron Haskins, a co-director of the Center on Children and Families, part of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. “If you want to do well and if you want your kids to do well, you’ve got to be married and you’ve got to stay married.”

The lives of Lakisha Miller and her daughter, Zileyah McCray, 4, bear out the difficulties of single parenting. Miller typically works two jobs. Zileyah logs long hours at a child care center, even though Miller’s parents and siblings often pitch in to help care for Zileyah.

Miller, a Starbucks barista, was recently laid off from her second job, serving meals at a nursing home. Now she’s interviewing for secretarial positions to make up for the income drop.

Like many single moms, she didn’t choose to go it alone. Zileyah’s father was arrested for armed robbery when Miller was pregnant. He’s still behind bars, pays no child support and doesn’t have a relationship with his daughter, Miller said.

Why choose to have a child in this situation? Now, I remember sluts luuuuuuv bad boys.

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This was a good article, regional (for me) and relevant. The marriage rate/poverty statement was really good. America is a very interesting place, even more after getting to know some people on food stamps and other support programs. With food stamps, subsidized daycare, extended unemployment, low income medicaid and section 42 housing its a way better deal to be a below the poverty line single mom in the US Midwest than in Canada.