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The 2010 census reported that 27% of children live with 1 parent. > Not surprisingly, single mothers with dependent children have the highest rate of poverty a
by w1ntermute 14y ago
The 2010 census reported that 27% of children live with 1 parent.
> Not surprisingly, single mothers with dependent children have the highest rate of poverty across all demographic groups (Olson & Banyard, 1993). Approximately 60 percent of U.S. children living in mother-only families are impoverished, compared with only 11 percent of two-parent families.
http://www3.uakron.edu/schulze/401/readings/singleparfam.htm http://www3.uakron.edu/schulze/401/readings/singleparfam.htm
- aidenn0 14y agoGood to know; Some math from that will partly answer my question (only partly because there is likely a causal relationship where being a single parent increases your chances of falling into poverty, so we can't say how much of this is "poor people end up as single parents" and how much is "single parents end up poor" Poverty | Not Poverty Single 16% | 11% Not Single 8% | 65% So knowing that a child is in an impoverished household, you would say they are twice as likely to have a single parent, whereas knowing that they are not, then they are nearly 6 times as likely to not have a single parent.