It can be a single parent family. Those mothers need help and one way to do it is to get these deadbeat fathers to pay their obligations to these mothers. The President knows full well the number one indicator of the reduction of family values, and the increase of crimes in our society is not financial, but the increase of the fatherless family. Further he equates by his statement that only women head single parent homes, and are owed child support.
Women have a greater propensity for non-payment of child support then men do.
By this statement, the President seems to be trying to appease the feminist factions, who are against him over the issues of abortion. In essence, he is giving in, the same as he gave in over taxes. If the President wants to talk about Family Values, he should be speaking on the issue of the millions of fathers who are daily being denied access to their children. He should talk about the millions of children who are being denied a father in their lives. This is family values.