New report says millions of women at risk of falling into poverty, economic ruin

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/12/22254801-new-report-says-millions-of-women-at-risk-of-falling-into-poverty-economic-ruin?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=1

"•75 percent wish they had devoted more time and energy to education and career — relative to 58 percent of the general population.

•73 percent wish they had made better financial decisions over the course of their lives — and so did 65 percent of the total survey group.

•Low-income women are more likely than men to regret tying the knot when they did — 52 percent versus 33 percent.

•And nearly one-third of low-income women with children wish they had postponed having children — or had fewer of them."

I don't like the tone of this article.

In the eyes of the government we are all just 'human capital'.

Why would anyone then want more immigrants to take the few jobs we have now and continue to increase unemployment, depress citizen wages and standard of living? I guess just the employers that want to keep high profits and low costs!

?? I guess I missed the paragraph about immigrants being related to this story.

I think a lot of it falls on the fact that many men are not being held accountable for being part of the parenting process. Lets be honest, it is 10 times easier for a single man to raise himself out of poverty then a single woman who has a child. Many of these mothers are left without the second half for their child. Any man who takes part in creating life should be held just as much financially responsible for that child as the mother regardless if they are married or not.

It takes TWO to create life, and those TWO people should both be responsible for the child, not just the mother. Even if it is just the father paying child support (50% of the cost to raise the child) so that mother has a better opportunity to better her economic opportunities through whatever means she chooses.

I think many men take for granted how hard it would be to be left a single mother without the means to support themselves properly.

This article sort of revolves around, "that woman should not have had a baby." The truth is though, that is takes a man to do it. To many men walk away from pregnancies without being held responsible.

"You're an asset. An expendable asset. And I used you to get the job done."

"Predator" (1987)