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Single-mothers: Paid & Unpaid Work
Poverty in Canada impacts our most venerable citizens in our society, women and children. Even as the statistics on low, income families have decreased in the past years, there is still a wide gap between single-mothers income level and two-parent families with one income. As well, our children are usually unable to provide for themselves, this leaves the responsibility, as noted by our society, to the caregivers of the family. Since before WWI it was the Mother who has been viewed as "the caregiver". This parent is responsible for the household duties and the upbringing of the children within the home. In prior years, when a woman's marital status changes, and she becomes a single parent, as a result of divorce or because she never married, then she not only has the household responsibilities and caring for her children, but she is required to take on the role of what was considered to be the man's job or role in the family unit, which is......

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