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- Title
Single-parent myths and realities.
- Authors
Klilsch, Michael
- Abstract
This article presents information related to single parents in the U.S. Among U. S. women who became single parents between 1970-1974 and 1980-1984, the proportion who did so as a result of a non- marital birth rose from 39% to 46%. However, when women who became single mothers as a result of widowhood were eliminated and when unmarried cohabitant's were counted as two-parent house- holds, the proportion of women entering single-parenthood did not change between the earlier and the later periods (39% each). For both women and children, the researchers remark that the role of childbirth in creating single-parent families is substantially lower when births to cohabiting couples are recognized as two-parent families. They also found that since 1970, around one-third of single mothers spent some time living with parents and one-fifth lived at home with their baby before leaving their parents' household for the first time. Among children born to an unmarried mother in 1980-1984, 21% of the time they spent in a "single-parent family" was actually in a cohabiting household.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SINGLE parents; SINGLE women; FAMILIES; GRANDPARENTS as parents; CHILDREN
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 3, p98
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article