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In 2000, 11% of children were living with parents who had never been married, 15.6% of children lived with a divorced parent, and 1.2% lived with a parent who was widowed. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The results of the 2010 United States Census showed that 27% of children live with one parent, consistent with the emerging trend noted in 2000. [ 5 ]
The number of children growing up in single-parent households has risen over the last one hundred years. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In countries like the US, UK, Sweden, and Ireland, 25% of households were single-parent households with children. [ 3 ]
Single-Parent Families – Families headed by a single parent, typically a mother, raising children on their own. Remarried or Blended Families – Families formed through remarriage, where children from previous relationships are part of the household.
Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education is in its 25th year of helping children with parents in prison succeed through scholarships and mentoring.
A single parent is a person who has a child or children but does not have a spouse or live-in partner to assist in the upbringing or support of the child. Reasons for becoming a single parent include death, divorce, break-up, abandonment, becoming widowed, domestic violence, rape, childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption.
Compared to the 1 in 110 white children who have at least one parent incarcerated, 1 in 15 black children and 1 in 41 Hispanic children have a parent who is incarcerated. [37] The mental effects children of incarcerated parents are comparable to that of children who have lost their parent due to death or divorce. [ 38 ]
In 1997, nearly 8.5 million (57%) poor children in the US came from single-parent households. [63] With the rate of divorce increasing and the number of children born out of wedlock increasing, the number of children who are born into or fall into single-parent households is also increasing.
With more children being born to unmarried couples and to couples whose marriages subsequently dissolve, more children live with just one parent. The proportion of children living with a never-married parent has grown, from 4% in 1960 to 42% in 2001. [33] Of all single-parent families, 83% are mother-child families. [33]