To be fair the lone parents advisors I've encountered at the job centre in two different parts of the country have been absolutely lovely, and very apologetic when telling me that scheme a, b, c, or x is going to screw me over rather than help me get off benefits in the sort term. (sadly zero hours contracts for experience, self-selected voluntary opportunities or mumpreneur schemes don't pay off in the immediate short term, even if often the 12 month picture is rosy).
In effect the government is saying to good women - yup you can have a 20 year 40% tax paying role, post grad quals etc, etc - but NONE of that matters if your man leaves you or dies on your arse, cos now your unwanted celibate sexual activity status means you are scum. Or maybe those women that have managed to hang onto their man against all the odds, really ARE better human beings than the rest of us? Even Dolly Parton regards her stage act as a caricature ffs.
Sadly I can see a sharp increase in prostitution, petty theft and drug dealing convictions looming on the horizon for ex-professional women who would never in a million years have seen themselves involved in criminal behavior but who succumb out of sheer desperation.
The Victorian work house was a grim place, and rates of child prostitution, and more petty crimes in those days was off the scale. Is this really what we want as a society? It's not the fairer society so many of our forebears fought so hard to achieve for us, nor is it the legacy I'm comfortable passing onto the next generation.