a slightly non-political examination of single parenthood!

http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep03142174.pdf

Evolutionary Explanations for Societal Differences in Single Parenthood
Nigel Barber, Ph.D.,

Evolutionary Psychology
human-nature.com/ep - 2005. 3: 142-174

Abstract: The new research strategy presented in this paper, Evolutionary 
Social Science, is designed to bridge the gap between evolutionary 
psychology that operates from the evolutionary past and social science that 
is bounded by recent history. Its core assumptions are (1) that modern 
societies owe their character to an interaction of hunter-gatherer 
adaptations with the modern environment; (2) that changes in societies may 
reflect change in individuals; (3) that historical changes and 
cross-societal differences are due to the same adaptational mechanisms, and 
(4) that different social contexts (e.g., social status) modify 
psychological development through adaptive mechanisms. Preliminary research 
is reviewed concerning historical, societal, and cross-national variation 
in single parenthood as an illustration of the potential usefulness of this 
new approach. Its success at synthesizing the evidence demonstrates that 
the time frames of evolutionary explanation and recent history can be 
bridged.

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