The social stigma of illegitimacy has disappeared, and single parent families are considered part of the norm.
Economic realities have also forced families to have both parents working and social realities have created more single-parent families.
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For Britain now has a higher proportion of single-parent families than most other rich countries (see chart).
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Any one of these losses will harshly impact single-parent families, children, people with disabilities and the elderly.
Per the Census Bureau, poverty rates for married couples were 6.2 percent, but 27.3 percent for single-parent families.
But the rise of single-parent families in itself has complex social causes, and it will not be reversed by politicians.
The weakening of marriage has been heterosexuals' doing, not gays', for it is their infidelity, divorce rates and single-parent families that have wrought social damage.
Today, 35% of American children are being raised in single-parent families.
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But they also warned inner city areas of London, Nottingham, Hull and Manchester, which commonly had young populations with unhealthy habits and high levels of single-parent families, were likely to face serious problems in the future.
We know that the poverty rate is higher among single parent households than in families with married couples.
At the same time, Americans are more likely than ever to live apart from extended family, including the second parent (34% of all families in the US are headed by a single parent today compared to just 11% in 1970).
Some married-parent families struggle, just as some families headed by cohabiting or single mothers thrive.
One would think an extra income contributed by a grandparent joining the household would help single-parent or even double-parent families.
It focuses on the kinds of stresses that military families face: relocation, deployment, separation and being a single parent.
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