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In the early 80's my mom left my abusive father, with 3 kids in tow, and managed to buy a (shitty) car, rent a (shitty) house, and feed all three of us with a waitress job at Golden fucking Corral (paying for child care while she was at work, too!), and all the while not getting a dime in support from dear alcoholic dad. It wasn't easy but it was possible. That's no longer true.
I have watched the world become impossible for younger people to thrive in, and it's really depressing.
At this point you need to have hope everything breaks.
It's really important to have these kinds of abilities in order to have a functioning society as well. In the current situation, everything has to go perfectly for children to even have a mediocre upbringing. Their mom and their dad have to both be pretty well-educated and work jobs good enough to afford the increasingly out of control costs of living.
If a single parent has the ability with a mediocre job to fund a decent household, it makes it much easier to bear the usual societal ills such as one or the other parent not being dependable.
Sad and true.