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That statistic sounds totally wrong and after looking at your source it is highly misleading. It’s just if the parents were married at birth. Of the people I k

That statistic sounds totally wrong and after looking at your source it is highly misleading. It’s just if the parents were married at birth. Of the people I know with kids like 50% of them were not married when they started having kids. They either got married latter or never married because there was no advantage to do so and they didn’t care. Yet none of them are what you would call “single mothers”. They are all still together with the fathers of their children. So basically it says more about marriage than it does about parenting.

ALittleLight 5y ago
If you have better data I'm happy to look at that. I agree that cohabiting are likely more common now and it is possibly more common to get married just after birth than it used to be. Table CH-1 from this census website shows that children living with a single parent goes from 10% in 1960 to 36% in 2020. (=E13/C13) I'm not certain but I think they are accounting for cohabiting parents here because they don't use any language related to marriage and the census could tell if the parents were cohabiting or not. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families/children.html https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families...