NPR: Why children of married parents do better, but America is moving the other way

But in places like Baltimore it’s just a single mother

The left isn't involved in this at all. As the Obama and Clinton records show - liberals and conservatives both cleave to this preachy and dogmatic ideas about the family. Liberals may pursue the vote of single parents, racialised groups and LGBT people but their political beliefs are quite similar.

Perhaps you will one day meet an actual leftist and have a chat about family abolition, haha

Way to go, mussibini, adding ageism to your pathetic allegation of homophobia. I recall reading many of your posts and nearly all seem to strengthen my belief in the position you oppose, as this one does.

You are insane.

You fail to recognize that direct abortion also results in a "forced birth" - the forced birth of a slaughtered child. Unborn human beings are born one way or another, whether born alive, or born dead as from a still birth or from direct abortion. It shows that those addled by Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale decrying pro-lifers as "forced birthers" lack a full sense of what bearing means.

"[P]reachy and dogmatic ideas about the family?"

You mean, like it should exist, and ~40% of kids shouldn't be born out-of-wedlock, as is the case now in the USA? Call me preachy and dogmatic, then.

Poverty has increasingly concentrated in single-parent families.

Imagine still believing (in our day and age) some idiotic religious nonsense that if is sinful to have kids out of wedlock. LMFAOOO

Look you need repent of your Godless words and sins. Your Godlessness will destroy your soul and cause you eternal damnation.

Lol letsrun mods deleted my post saying nobody wants to have sex with conservatives. This place is a snooze fest. So many sensitive sallies

You remain insane.

In general the type of person who has a kid without being married, or goes through multiple marriages, that kind of person does not have their crap together. There are exceptions, but a lot of the time it's not surprising that someone is in a certain situation. The apple does not fall far from the tree, they raise their kids in a way that the kid also does not have their act together and leads a similar life.

A family that is more organized and stable will raise their kid to be the same way and they will be more successful.

The bad situation is becoming more common because the people who don't have their act together are having more kids and starting at a younger age. The people who are more methodical and make sure they have a good situation going, they often have fewer kids and a little later in life. It's basically a stepping stone to what the movie ideocracy is all about, where eventually there are more dumb people because they reproduce at a higher rate, and the smart person becomes the rare exception.