Today’s Facts….which of course do not pertain to all single parents however…….
Today in America…
Single parents account for nearly a third of family households with children under the
Half of children will live in a single parent household at some point in childhood.
The number of children born to unmarried women per year quadrupled from 500,000 to more than two million in less than twenty years.
The number of single mothers increased from three million to ten million between 1970 and 2000.
Every day in America, 1,186 babies are born to teen mothers.
Every day in America, 3,742 babies are born to unmarried mothers.
What is the effect?
Violent criminals are overwhelmingly males who grew up without fathers.
Seventy-five percent of children/adolescents in chemical dependency hospitals are from single parent families.
More than half of all youths incarcerated for criminal acts lived in one-parent families when they were children.
Sixty-three percent of suicides are individuals from single parent families.
Seventy-five percent of teenage pregnancies are from single parent homes.
Children living at home with both parents grow up with more financial and educational advantages than youngsters raised by one parent, as US Census statistics have long shown.
Seventy-two percent of the US Populations believes that fatherlessness is the most significant social problem America is facing.
Children in single parent families are two to three times as likely as children in two parent families to have emotional and behavioral problems.
Children who lived with only one parent had lower grade point averages, lower career aspirations, poorer attendance records, and higher drop out rates than students who lived with both parents.
I am totally aware of deadbeat dads……trust me.
I did say not all single parents. I know there are many great single parents and many horrible parents who stay together. I do find these statistics to be a bit alarming though. Don’t you?
