Some people have suggested that Lyndon Johnson’s guarantee of government handouts if were a single parent disincentivized women from being married while having children, raising the percent of children raised without both parents.
People who have suggested this are idiots.
So the argument here is that these women are getting pregnant, and then refusing to marry the fathers of their children... because then they wouldn't be entitled to certain welfare benefits? Almost all of them would be better off marrying their children's father and just living off the wages that he earns.
This nonsensical "welfare queen" argument should have died in the 80s.
And one of the biggest reasons for the rise in single-parent homes is the rise in mass incarceration.