Single-Parent Families

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This paper examines how single-parent households are common due to divorce, death of a spouse, the increased number of unmarried individuals raising children, and other socio-economic reasons. It explores how this gradual change in demographics over the years has greatly impacted the lives of children from all backgrounds and how one of these impacts has concerned the relocation of the custodial parent. It examines how this continues to be a much-debated issue that is not close to being resolved.

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"About 11 million children or 28 percent of all children under 18 live in homes with only one parent according to the Bureau of the Census. This is more than triple than that in 1960, although the increase has slowed. In about 85 percent of these single-parent households, the mother is custodian, although the number of father-only families more than doubled between 1980 and 1982. One of the major effects of single-parenting is the reduction in income. Married fathers earn the most, followed by single fathers and then single mothers. A large proportion of single mothers are either at or just above poverty rates. This significantly affects health and physical and mental well being."

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