The differents situations described in the question have their roots in the consequences of a historical tradition of war of united states of america.
Many historians match that with war comes devastation, depression, deprivation and death. For example during the world war II more than 292.000 American soldiers killed in action. Most of them were father and mother or members of a family.
This produced that many childrens didn't know theirs father, the women awaiting the return of theirs husband, they had to keep the job to survival and others without hope for living because had lost everything.
By the other hand those family situations contributed to an upsurge in divorce , resulting in severe problems among the youngs.
