Several years ago, a greeting card company donated Mother’s Day cards to prison inmates to send to their mothers. They ran out of cards.
After this success, company officials donated Father’s Day cards for prisoners to send their fathers and were shocked when only a handful were used.
A recent Pew Research piece may offer insight. Based on an analysis of the 2011 American Community Survey, Pew asserted that 40 percent of all households with children under 18 include mothers who are either the sole or primary source of income for the family.
On the surface, this sounds like a victory for women, but if you look closer, it is a very different story. The report states, “These breadwinner moms are made up of two very different groups: 5.1 million are married mothers who have a higher income than their husbands, and 8.6 million are single mothers.”
“You would never guess from the triumphant headlines in the media that almost two-thirds of the family breadwinners are single mothers,” said Kay Hymowitz, William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of “Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys,” and Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age.”