text: My "obsession" with single parenthood is its socioeconomic effect on society. I am not judgemental about the issue - if some rich Hollywood actress has a hundred kids outside marriage it is not as harmful because she can provide for them. You are assuming that I think that women have to be suppressed to reduce single parenthood. I actually think  more contraceptives are the answer ( a large percentage of these single mothers are teenagers or very young women). Contraceptives are not provided to young girls in conservative Muslim countries. Back alley abortion is how they deal with the issue, which is much worse. Conservative Christians in North America want the same for young girls here.
  
  Child poverty ensures that this dream/ideal of hard work, discipline, education, etc goes out of the window (a visit to an inner city school in the US should prove that).  Child poverty rates are around 40 percent today in the US. Those kids will not go to university, or become economically successful