Victims of the Sexual Revolution: Children in Poverty

poor children who live in communities with a large proportion of single parents are more likely to remain poor even when they are raised by their married
mother and father. Or, another way of saying the same thing, poor children who are raised by a single parent but live in a community where most
children are raised by both parents are more likely to escape poverty. There were three other community factors that strongly predicted upward
economic mobility: class and racial segregation, school quality and social capital. Poor children (of all races) were more likely to escape poverty
in communities that were less divided along class and race lines, had less income inequality, had high-quality schools and had high levels of civic
involvement. (Related to class and race segregation, communities with more urban sprawl also had less upward mobility.) When controlling for all
factors, though, family structure was the strongest predictor of upward economic mobility.

1. there are no negative consequences to sex that cannot be contracepted away, and
2. all the problems of non-marital childbearing can be overcome if only society would give more money to single mothers.