Section: Reading

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In the passage, the author answers all of the following questions EXCEPT:

1. How do we know welfare benefits are not the answer for the rise in single motherhood?
2. How do we know the U.S. has a bigger issue with single motherhood than other industrialized nations?
3. Does the trend in welfare benefits between 1960 and 1990 match the trend in single motherhood?
4. Which data illustrate that single mothers are becoming more economically dependent on government?

It is the view of the passage that women are becoming more economically independent, NOT dependent.