Gaint does indeed go on a bit about the intentionally single mothers & their effect on the economy, & on the general social atmosphere [part of the hoodie·binge-drinking &c gestalt: probably statistically not that significant, but disagreeably upfront & prominent nevertheless as destroyer of the national sense of well-being] to which they unhappily contribute.

So it might be as well to say again that the much-to-be-applauded, courageously coping single mother like Emma B, who is such as a result of misfortune and not of intent [in her case, IIRC, of a marriage break-up], is not the ONLY sort of single mother, as she & others on this thread appear to be urging; but that there is also another, not nearly so admirable, kind; who do, though perhaps not quite to the enormous extent that Gaint appears to think, constitute a social problem in need of solution.

~Michael~