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The main cause of single parent families are high rates of divorce and non-marital childbearing. According to a 2019 study from Pew Research Center, the United States has the world's highest rate of children living in single-parent households. [12]
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.
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]
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.
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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 ...
English: United States single parent family income distribution by sex of parent. Also shown is income distribution of married couple family groups. 28% of female parent single parent families have an income of at least $50,000 a year vs. 47% for male parent single parent families and 71% for married couple families.
Articles relating to single parents, persons who have a child or children but do 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 divorce, break-up, abandonment, becoming widowed, domestic violence, rape, childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption.