https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/05/hey-kids-raised-by-single-moms-are-sturdier/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 04:17:39 -0400<![CDATA[Kids of unmarried parents, according to all of those studies (of rich moms and poor, educated moms and not-so), are supposed to be failures. They are supposed to abuse drugs, get pregnant, and end up in prison rather than grad school. One-fourth of them are supposed to experience the kind of emotional havoc that renders them useless forever. There is of course no data suggesting that these particular kids might have had similar paths regardless of the number of adults sleeping down the hall. But beyond that there is also the beauty that emerges from the strain, the impediments, even the sometimes terrifying knowledge that their parents might fail them. No single mom wants to fail them—provide less, teach less, support less, be less—but it is in our minds that we might. So we struggle, and over the long term, we impart to our children that struggle can be good. This is something they know intimately.]]>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 22:40:57 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/01/05/hey-kids-raised-by-single-moms-are-sturdier-n98929