The stereotype that single mothers are 'leaning on the system' is far from the truth. So why does it still exist?
ABCA few years ago, the would-be One Nation politician David Archibald called for sole parenting support payments to be cut because single motherhood was "a lifestyle choice". "I think for single mothers, it's baked into a deeply heteronormative moralistic idea about what a family should be … When you deviate from that in any kind of way, you are punished for it." sixty-five per cent of those have been affected by family violence, so that's a major trigger and there are still stigmas that single mothers are … leaning on the system," Davidson says. "So we're in this trap, I suppose, that a lot of single mothers are in where you can't … just put your kids in childcare, and go and work full time and be able to get career back on track or make enough money to compensate for two incomes." "The more women who become single mothers, the more that we start to see women empowered and supported to leave violent relationships and even just unhappy relationships."
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