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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 newest census bureau reports that between 1960 and 2016, the percentage of children living in families with two parents decreased from 88 to 69. Of those 50.7 million children living in families with two parents, 47.7 million live with two married parents and 3.0 million live with two unmarried parents. [10]
There is no easy solution to the surge in births outside of marriage, nor to the fact that children of single parents are on average worse off than children in two-parent households.
Children growing up in single-parent families may correlate with lower average educational attainment compared to children raised in a household with two parents. [3] Understanding the causes of these differences could help combat educational inequalities.
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Nuclear family households are now less common compared to household with couples without children, single-parent families, and unmarried couples with children. [ 22 ] In the UK, the number of nuclear families fell from 39.0% of all households in 1968 to 28.0% in 1992.
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