A bad marriage is better than no marriage at all is becoming a catch phrase.
Single mothers feel that they are being made scapegoats for many of society's problems.
Everything from rising crime rates to youth suicide and low academic performance has been blamed on them. It wouldn't be surprising to learn that the El Nino effect is the result of a rise in the divorce rate. Unfortunately, there are some serious flaws in much of the interpretation of recent research data. A report by the Centre for Independent Studies about the state of the nation made a link between rising crime rates since the 1960s and the increase in numbers of single-parent families. What its authors forgot to mention was that crime rates started rising first.