(SingleMotherNews) Three generation extended families without men are creating a new underclass … - Telegraph.co.uk
The research into extended families in Britain by the Centre for Policy Studies, found that increasing numbers of single mothers are the product of a single parent family themselves. It concluded that the absence of male influence made this type of “lone mother family” more likely to rely on the welfare state as an “indispensable prop” and even lead to “new class conflict”. Figures show there is a “growing tendency” for lone mothers to have daughters who go on to become lone mothers themselves. In 1998 44 per cent of maternal grandmothers who were single mothers had daughters who were also lone parents. read more
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