Family breakdown is leading to personal lifetime failure

Interesting article in the New York Times looking at data that suggests that the relative increase in wages for women is not because women are doing better than men per se (due to harder work, better education, higher motivation etc), it is because men brought up in single-parent households are failing to compete economically.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/business/economy/as-men-lose-economic-ground-clues-in-the-family.html?src=twr&_r=0

Obviously America is not the United Kingdom.

But if family breakdown is leading to personal lifetime failure it is a serious issue that must be addressed.