As more non-traditional families become the norm, single-parent adoption has also been on the rise. Here, experts explain why ...

To many Americans, the paragon of family structure will always be the two-parent household, but that doesn’t mean we need to be oblivious to the reality that single-parent households are sometimes ...

The 2022 Current Population Survey from the Census Bureau estimates that there are nearly 7.9 million mother-only single-parent households in the U.S. "The notion that father-led families are ...

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 ...

Almost half of all babies born in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. That's not good for children, says progressive economist Melissa Kearney in her new book, The Two-Parent Privilege.

In Mexico, for example, 70% of single mothers are economically active, but many lack adequate labor benefits, such as childcare or flexible hours, complicating the balance between work and parenting.

It is an economic imperative to break the vicious cycle of a widening class gap in family structure — and more generally, a high share of one-parent homes outside all but the most highly ...

That is the wrong approach. Just as we don’t accept that college is only for the well-off, a healthy marriage and a two-parent family should not be out of reach for large segments of society.

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).

The United States has one of the highest single-parent-household rates in the world, and at least 2.7 million of those households are headed by single mothers by choice.