The short answer is absolutely. Just to embellish on what you're saying, the single largest group of poor people in this country are single-parent, mother-led families. So anything we can do to address and focus on the needs of that group of people...because we know they are the ones who are going to most directly impact the lives of children. These are mothers of very young children.
Certainly this issue is of growing concern. Your concern that it is impacting the long-term effect on children is absolutely supportable by the evidence, and I would encourage and strongly endorse the propositions you're making.
Merci.