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[better source needed] Single fathers are far less common than single mothers, constituting 16% of single-parent families. [ citation needed ] According to Single Parent Magazine , the number of single fathers has increased by 60% in the last ten years, and is one of the fastest growing family situations in the United States. 60% of single ...
The median household income for single mothers is $27,419 and when comparing that to what single fathers earn in the same city, single mothers earn just 53% of what single fathers do (ranking ...
Proponents of marriage as a solution argue that because dual-earner households tend to have higher incomes than single-parent families, an economic and social imperative exists to encourage marriage.
Another link between students with low educational attainment later becoming single parents has also been explored, [1] with high achievers being almost two-thirds less likely to become a single parent. Children lacking a mother figure are at greater risk academically than those lacking a father figure. [6]
The percentage of single-parent households has doubled in the last three decades, but that percentage tripled between 1900 and 1950. [9] The sense of marriage as a "permanent" institution has been weakened, allowing individuals to consider leaving marriages more readily than they may have in the past. [10] Increasingly, single-parent families ...
The Bellingham Herald’s Extend-a-Hand charity appeal, now in its fifth decade, partners with Unity Care NW and Opportunity Council to help families like these: Joshua is a single dad to Ellie, 2 ...
More women than in the past have never had a child. Women are giving birth to their first child at older ages. Women are having fewer children. Most adults live in households headed by married couples; single-mother households are more common than single-father households. Women are more likely than men to be in poverty.
At the 2013 census, 17.8% of New Zealand families were single-parent, of which five-sixths were headed by a female. Single-parent families in New Zealand have fewer children than two-parent families; 56% of single-parent families have only one child and 29% have two children, compared to 38% and 40% respectively for two-parent families. [60]