Somehow I never thought of single parents as "living alone" as this article does.. You don't have an adult partner, but you definitely don't live alone! https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/10/living-alone-couple-partner-single/620434/
@irina oh i completely missed that section — the only reference to kids i saw was the study that reported married workers with kids were more likely to get raises than people living alone, because managers assumed that people with kids would have additional expenses
@irina @Satsuma The child care/daycare mentions were regarding people who don't live alone; the first mention is specifically about how people who don't live alone do get raises based on the perceived need for child care expenses, and the second one is just an example of things that get shared amongs folks who don't live alone.
The phrasing is a bit awkward and I can see how it'd be easy to misinterpret the article that way though.
@Satsuma It didn't seem to be, but one of the things it mentioned as being more expensive/more of a hassle for single people was "childcare" and later "daycare". Why would you need that if you're just a single person living alone?