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Even at that age I could sense the gap in wealth and living standards compared to the relative comfort of growing up in a single parent family in Croydon.
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Now 63, he grew up in public housing, in a single-parent family in Columbus, Georgia.
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Now 63, he grew up in public housing, in a single-parent family in Columbus, Ga.
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The rise of grandfamilies also highlights another growing branch of America's changing family tree: The single parent household, overwhelmingly headed by mothers.
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One family in five in social housing is headed by a single parent, triple the percentage of the population at large.
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But what Scarborough failed to mention is that same black man came from a single-parent home where the mom had to go on welfare just to feed her family.
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She'd been a single parent to their ten-year-old daughter, finished her nursing degree, and handled the family's finances.
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