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These numbers increased for single-parent homes, with 26.6% of all single-parent families living in poverty, [88] 22.5% of all white single-parent people, [89] 44.0% of all single-parent black people, [90] and 33.4% of all single-parent Hispanic people [91] living in poverty.
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 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 ...
Patterson was a caseworker for the Dallas County Department of Public Welfare for fifteen years. [1] In 1963 she was promoted to supervisor of casework services. In 1968, she was the first African American woman to serve as Director of the Inter-Agency Project of the Community Council of Greater Dallas, heading the work done to coordinate resources in the Crossroads Community Center.
Black women living in the U.S. are two to three times likely to die as a result of pregnancy- or birth-related complications than white women, according to government data.
In order to serve Black mothers, the healthcare workforce must properly focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. ... During what should be a happy time, 30% of Black women reported being ignored ...
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.
Disparities also persisted, as the maternal mortality rate among Black or African American women was roughly 2.5 times greater than white women during these years, according to the analysis.