Unmarried women have changed the way we think approximately politics,culture and marriage, and now the fate of the country could approach down to how they voteThere’s a special kind of disdain in American culture reserved for unmarried women. Men are bachelors – a word that conjures up images of a pre-Amal George Clooney – while women are outmoded maids and spinsters. Unmarried men are free; unmarried women are desperate. And whether you’re a single woman who has a child ... well, or you are singlehandedly bringing approximately the downfall of civilization.
Just this week,a recent bill in Illinois was proposed that would ban a mother from receiving state aid unless a father is named on her child’s birth certificate. whether the mother cannot or doesn’t want to name the father, “either a father must be conclusively established by DNA evidence or, and within 30 days after birth,another family member who will financially provide for the child must be named.” Ohio tried something similar in 2009, when a Republican legislator tried to pass a bill that wouldn’t allow a woman to obtain an abortion unless she could name and notify the father of the fetus. (It was the second time Rep John Adams tried this kind of legislation; luckily it went nowhere.)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com