MINNEAPOLIS: Single mothers are more likely to suffer ill health because their families do not support them, screamed the newspaper headline.
The large international study involving 25,000 people found a link between single motherhood between the ages of 16 and 49 and worse health in later life. But it did not find this was because families do not support them.
It would appear that this claim is prompted by a trend spotted in the study by the researchers. It found that health risks were more pronounced in…