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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 ...
Black women often work in low-paying and female-dominated occupations. [87] [needs update] Black women also make up a large percentage of poverty-afflicted people. [87] Additionally, the racialization of poverty in combination with its feminization creates further hindrances for youth growing up black, in single-parent homes, and in poverty. [87]
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 ...
In November 2016, the Current Population Survey of the United States Census Bureau reported that 69 percent of children under the age of 18 lived with two parents, which was a decline from 88 percent in 1960, while the percentage of U.S. children under 18 living with one parent increased from 9 percent (8 percent with mothers, 1 percent with ...
When Black women and birthing people have access to doctors and nurses who look like them, the rate of mortality decreases, sometimes by half. Infant mortality decreases by half," Crawley said.
Black women who practice healthy behaviors during pregnancy have a higher rate of mortality during childbirth than white women who do not, data show. California combats high death rates of Black ...
In 1940, the illegitimacy rate for Black children was 19 percent. [2] When Moynihan warned in his 1965 report of the coming destruction of the Black family, the out-of-wedlock birthrate was 25 percent among Blacks. [1] By 1991, 68 percent of Black children were born outside of marriage. [3] In 2011, 72 percent of Black babies were born to unwed ...
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