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As the denizens of newsrooms attempt to name this departing era and assign it a theme song, Beyonce’s wagging finger will surely come to mind. This is the decade of “All the Single Ladies,” beckoned in by an uptown pixie in a pair of Blahniks, at first viewed through glasses tinted rosy as a $15 cosmo. But while this moment’s montage may commence with Carrie in her curbside tutu, its finale should cast the women of Adrian LeBlanc’s study of struggling single motherhood, Random Family. This decade needs to end with a very different discussion of single life than the one with which it began.
In our frothier days, it seemed a single woman’s main concern was her dating life, not her survival. And yet, while the early aughts were aflutter with media “investigating” whether unmarried women truly were more fabulous, there’s no parity whatsoever in examining if these days they’re destitute. But new numbers, crunched by the Center for American Progress last month, point to a dire and neglected story: Single women are suffering greater economic peril than married ones. Over the past year, the number of unemployed, unmarried females rose 3.6 percent, while married women saw only a 1.7 percent increase. For single mothers with a 4.1 percent increase, it’s even worse: Their jobless rates have jumped to 2.4 percent above the national average. And with such rising numbers, it’s hard to be optimistic about recovery any time soon. Our economic downfall may be rendering singlehood a different social class for many ... (Read the rest of this article at The Big Money.)
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BTW, we should only really be
By: musa | Thu, 01/07/2010 - 00:08
BTW, we should only really be concerned about women and their unemployment and plights because women are the pillar and the heart and the most important part of society. Men are expendable. Look at them as nothing than sperm donors.
Women rule.
ever heard of gyno-centrism
By: p.bateman | Sun, 01/03/2010 - 08:29
so now the recession is a feminist issue too?
just like 'fat' as if men dont get fat, as if male models dont represent unattainable beauty standards.....just an analogy.
I really think its wonderful
By: musa | Sun, 01/03/2010 - 00:46
I really think its wonderful for women to be single mothers and to be free of men. Husbands do nothing for women. Single mothers deserve all the props. Its exciting to read that women are just waiting to divorce their husbands to be free again when the economy gets better. And children are better off without fathers, really they are.
teereal, the stats are not
By: dawnsmith | Thu, 12/31/2009 - 12:02
teereal, the stats are not wrong. You are one person; statistics apply to millions. I too am better off as a single mom than I was with a husband, and my kids are better off too. But you and I are the exceptions. Most single moms have it much harder than we do.
Independent Women...I think not. Gold-digging hussies
By: mockofshame | Wed, 12/30/2009 - 18:23
This article made me think of two very different ones I stumbled across today. I think you ladies would find these two stories outraging. Basically, I feel like many young women today are taking a step backwards and actually causing regression rather than progress. I don't think the recession can be blamed, but rather sheer laziness and poor parenting. Please check out my article on this here:
http://mockofshame.com/cultural-phenomena/girls-be-dumb-and-marry-rich/
Asinine
By: Rocket88 | Wed, 12/30/2009 - 13:31
What an asinine quasi-article. First off, "single mother" is a hell of a difference from "single woman." Secondly, pardon me for not going into a funk over the effects of the recession on women specifically, given that 78% of the people who lost their jobs during the recession are men, who constituted 50.2% of the workforce.
Single mothers having a hard time? No shit. Here's a suggestion: since, in the US, all ultimate reproductive decisions rest in the hands of women, DON'T HAVE KIDS YOU CAN'T AFFORD. Don't have them when you're single. Don't have them with men who can't/won't support them.
OK, there will be single mothers out there who are widows, or whose ex-husbands suddenly went insane, or fled to Bolivia with the nanny, or something like that wholly out of their control. But this constitutes the tiny minority of single mothers.
(I will point out, too, that 92% of single fathers are employed, as opposed to 79% of single mothers, according to a 2007 report by the US Census Bureau).
Additionally, the comparison of anyone on "Friends" or "Sex in the City" to real-life single mothers is just preposterous. Those shows are works of fiction focused on wealthy, educated, white women. In 2005, 69.5% of births to black women were to single mothers, compared to 25.4% of non-Hispanic white women.
If you can't afford kids, don't have them. Isn't that easy? If you can't afford kids, don't have them. Boy, I'm surprised nobody has ever thought of that before. If you can't afford kids, don't have them.
Tell me a story about a widow with one kid who lost her job, I feel bad for that mom. Tell me a story about poor people having more children than they can afford, without a stable relationship with their partner, and I feel bad for the KIDS, but I sure as hell don't feel bad for the irresponsible single mother.
Single ladies somewhat different from single mothers
By: The Cheese | Wed, 12/30/2009 - 12:56
So basically Sandler is arguing that single mothers fare worse than married mothers. Well, duh. I don't think anyone suddenly forgot about that in the naughts. When I think about fab-u-lous ladies of the past decade who have glorified singledom, I think, as Sandler alluded to in the opening paragraph, of women like Carrie Bradshaw--women who are past their supposedly marriage-ripe twenties but choose to eschew marriage and kids for a life of cocktail drinking and shoe shopping. Women who broke out of the traditional mold and decided to remain responsible only to themselves and have fun (however vapidly manifested, at least in SATC) for a while longer. A very different picture from the lot of a single mother (however hard Friends tried to change that vision).
That's not to say the recession won't change the single ladies. We'll probably see less glorification of excessive spending habits for sure. But I don't think it will change the desirability of staying single and childless for much longer than used to be the norm.
this single ain't crying
By: teereal | Wed, 12/30/2009 - 11:02
I have been single on and off throught my life, and I was married as well, but it was a bad match and even with a child I chose to get out and make a better life for myself. The stats are wrong, my finances are better than when I was wed, I am happier, and my child has a more stable life. Know why I don't watch SITC? Because I can't relate or understand these women at all.
Your life and how you live it are up to you, and I don't spend my time kvetching about what I don't have, like Manolos (but why would I walk to stutter around on those heels anyway? Not me). Instead, when I'm feeling sorry for myself, I volunteer, lately it's been with an animal rescue group, and just knowing that I am saving lives makes a difference. Yes, there are always challenges, and I would definitely welcome a quality man in my life, but in the meantime, I'm living.
The stimulus measures refuse
By: Larissa | Wed, 12/30/2009 - 01:15
The stimulus measures refuse to treat women as a crucial part of our economy. When the unemployment crisis seemed as exclusive to men as prostate worries, it made sense that job creation was focused on fields fueled by testosterone. But with news that single women are losing work in numbers above the dismal national average, it’s harder to see the wisdom of a recovery aimed mainly at men. Yet discussion of job creation continues to be ruled by talk of infrastructure and energy development, which are costly areas that take time and planning to institute. Certainly the $98 billion the Recovery Act granted to the Department of Education will save many women's jobs, but largely ignored and much needed are the instant-gratification “caring profession” jobs often filled by female workers like home health aides, and child care workers. Sad to say, this is the female immediate means to get extra cash for a living.