Well if everyone could compost properly, we would have less garbage and I am talking about the psychological sort of garbage. Being decent humans, and dont dumping one's toxic waste on others, could be an excellent mindset to live by.
There is a very small percentage of the single mums or dads who do it by choice. The rest have fallen through the cracks of an often sick and sociopathic society, alas cruelly sent to the human scrap heap forever it seems.
Last look and it was about 3 years ago now, 52% of women in Australia are on their own. That's a majority isn't it? Something to ponder on...