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A recent poll showed that even as they've grown more comfortable with same-sex or unmarried couples raising children, most Americans still view single mothers as detrimental to society....   >>>

A recent poll showed that even as they've grown more comfortable with same-sex or unmarried couples raising children, most Americans still view single mothers as detrimental to society.



According to the poll, “working mothers are acceptable to almost everybody. Two parents who are unmarried are tolerated or acceptable. But many people, including single parents themselves, question single-parent families. There's still a strong belief that children need two parents."



Andrew Cherlin, a Johns Hopkins University sociologist who studies families, said the Pew poll underscores the widespread acceptance of two-parent families, of almost any ilk.



Cherlin said that for many Americans, the convictions rise not only out of moral concerns but for practical reasons.



"Most people aren't thinking of Murphy Brown," he said. "They're concerned about the economic problems of single mothers, and the amount of effort it takes to be a good parent. People aren't anti-single mother as much as they are pro-two parents."



The above is an excerpt from a The Washington Post article by Carol Morello.



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