welcome back to worlds apart a real discussing changing gender roles for a psychologist glahn of what will science professor wilson earlier we were talking about the steep rise in single parent households and there are many downsides to raising children alone for children for parents for societies at large and yet. this moral is becoming increasingly more widespread and it is all fun presented in terms of. women's liberation so much so that any government's efforts to intervene or protect the institution of marriage is sometimes viewed to suspicion or even condemnation i wonder if you think that government has any role to play in gender politics i think government alter things perhaps by incentives rather than by. by negative sanction. compulsion but we have passed the point where we can tell people that they have to get married that they can't produce children out of wedlock and if they do they will take the children away and do something terrible but we also know that single parents are statistically more likely to be poor they're more likely to have emotional or behavioral problems