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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Today is National Single Parenting Day. According to Statista, approximately 15.78 million children lived with single moms, and 3.44 million lived with single dads in 2022 ...
Readers react to a guest essay arguing that the growing number of such households is bad for the children. To the Editor: Re “The Rise of Single-Parent Families Is Bad for Kids,” by Melissa S ...
Many kids raised by single parents succeed (two of the past three Democratic presidents among them). It is just to say that parenting is hard. Doing it alone is harder.
The Two-Parent Privilege: How The Decline In Marriage Has Increased Inequality And Lowered Social Mobility, And What We Can Do About It by Melissa S Kearney Swift Press £22, 228 pages/UCP $25 ...
This is a critical finding because single-parent families are far more likely to be living in poverty than two-parent families (62.7% versus 17.8% in the study). And data from other countries ...
Two-parent households should be a policy goal. Earlier this year, I was at a conference on fighting poverty, and a member of the audience asked a question that made the experts visibly uncomfortable.
The rate of children in single-parent households shot up from just 9% in the 1960s. Though the share of two-parent homes has dropped across the board, it’s been especially concentrated among ...
Two new books propose we quit idealizing the married-with-kids configuration and overhaul the single-parent household’s cultural status. In 1918, Jessie Ashley, a feminist lawyer from a genteel ...