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Census information from 1960 tells us that in that year, only nine percent of children lived in single parent families. [14] Today four out of every ten children are born to an unwed mother. [15] The prevalence of single mothers as primary caregiver is a part of traditional parenting trends between mothers and fathers.
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]
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.
Single women made up 19% of all homebuyers in 2023. (National Association of Realtors)Single women householders own 20.3 million homes in the U.S., compared to single men householders who own 14.9 ...
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The first lists show the most recent year where there is published total fertility rate (TFR) data ranked by sovereign states and dependencies, and are ordered by organization type – intergovernmental, governmental, or non-governmental organization that searched, organized, and published the data. Country ranking by most recent years lists:
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Maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births. [1]From Our World in Data (using World Health Organization definition): "The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is defined as the number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births during the same time period.