Why do you think this is? Too soon for abortion bans to show up in the numbers. Are American fathers shirking their responsibility? Do American women feel independent enough to raise children on their own?
Actually, lately I have been running into single fathers who are raising the children after their wives decided they weren't ready to settle down after giving birth.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
A country gets what it incentivizes as well as the consequences. Our culture has celebrated single parents as an equally viable option to a mother and father. Statistics prove this to be completely false when you look at the likely outcomes for the children. But, we keep pretending those statistical outcomes don’t matter or are the result of other factors like the color of one’s skin… to our collective detriment.
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy