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There is a reason poor urban neighborhoods are full of poor single moms, not single dads, and it’s not the wage gap. Indeed, the wage gap all but disappears when you eliminate child-rearing related differences from the equation.

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Out of curiosity, why did you scope to urban neighborhoods? Either the finding holds true for urban, suburban, and rural poor neighborhoods or child-rearing responsibilities is probably not the cause (instead, it would probably be something that correlates with population density). What am I missing?

EDIT: I can't reply ("I'm posting too fast"), but I'm genuinely asking for clarity--not making a point or impugning anyone's character.

It seems uncharitable to glom onto a single word of the GP's statement; suburban and rural areas are also full of single mothers.

I was just asking for clarity; not making a point of any kind.

I've spent many years living or working in depressed industrial/port cities, so urban poverty is the first thing that comes to mind. It's apparently also true in rural areas, though I've never spent enough time in any such places to see who was carting around the kids. https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https:/....

Ah, thanks for clarifying.

>I can't reply ("I'm posting too fast"),

Click on the time next to the post you want to reply to.

From their description, your parent appears to be rate-limited: they can't post a new comment and instead are editing one they already posted.

In a different comment, they outright state they are being throttled:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16056235

Yeah, I think I get something like 5 posts in several hours (or maybe it's 5 posts in an hour with several hours of cooldown time?). I suspect it's because I have too many "controversial" posts, which is to say that center-left is a bit too far to the right for some on HN.

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