welcome back to worlds apart real discussing changing gender roles with psychologist glanville wilson 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. these small is becoming increasingly more widespread and it is often 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 this suspicion or even condemnation i wonder if you think that government has any role to play in gender politics i think government can alter things perhaps by incentives rather than by. by negative sanctions and compulsion but we have passed the point where we can tell people that they have to get married that i 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 poorer they're more likely to have emotional or behavioral problems and