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U.S. census data from 2010 reveal that more African-American families consisted of single mothers than married households with both parents. [26] In 2011, it was reported that 72% of black babies were born to unmarried mothers. [22] As of 2015, at 77.3%, black Americans have the highest rate of non-marital births among native-born Americans. [27]
In the United States, 80% of single parents are mothers. Among this percentage of single mothers: 45% of single mothers are currently divorced or separated, 1.7% are widowed, 34% of single mothers never have been married. [13] This is in contrast to earlier decades, where having a child outside of marriage and/or being a single mother was not ...
New data shows Black single mothers are facing dire economic challenges, making even basic expenses too hard to cover. According to a nationwide survey by The Current Project, 66% of Black single ...
Continue reading → The post Where Single Mothers Fare Worse Economically – 2022 Study appeared first on SmartAsset Blog. As of 2020, there are 10.7 million single parent households in the U.S ...
The Vanishing Family: Crisis in Black America is a CBS News special report hosted by Bill Moyers that aired in January 1986. It explores changes in African-American family structure at a time when 60% of Black children were born to single mothers. The Vanishing Family received numerous awards and widespread acclaim from newspaper columnists.
News studies and legislation show how dire the situation is for Black mothers in America. In 2016, Kira Johnson died giving birth to her second child, hours after she notified doctors of severe ...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1969. The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, commonly known as the Moynihan Report, was a 1965 report on black poverty in the United States written by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an American scholar serving as Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Lyndon B. Johnson and later to become a US Senator.
Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally. Black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest ...