In the past 20 years the number of single parent families might have doubled, but so have the numbers of a lot of other groups, say prison populations. To say that helping single parent families causes an increase in single parent families simply makes me want to bang my head against the wall. The reason for the increase in single parent families is (imo) because all young people want to do is party and have sex, check the stats on teenage pregnancy. If today's youth had any ambition to actually better themselves and had goals in life other than how they will spend Saturday night, and with whom, then maybe things might be different. Todays youth have lost touch with God, and find themselves in a downward spiral, so to speak. I mean, let's be honest, it it wasn't for unprotected sex, how would all these single parent families exist. Young girls must be naive to think a young man would want to stick around to raise a family (assuming the girl even knows who the father is). Okay now, everyone jump down my throat.