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Single mothers in Chinese provence face hefty fines for birthing out of wedlock
Women in Wuhan province could be fined £17,000 – six times average disposable income – for having a child out of wedlock The central Chinese city of Wuhan has published a draft ordinance that would fine women who have children out of wedlock more than £17,000, highlighting the country’s entrenched…
I Want To Meet these Mythical Single Mothers Who Rejected Great Guys They Love
Yesterday, I wrote at Slate about how conservatives aren’t going to let little things like evidence stand in the way of blaming crime on women living without male supervision. For a long time now, conservatives have blamed single motherhood for high crime rates. This claim contains within it a prediction: That…
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