single-mother family

Another way of looking at this is to consider single-mother families.

Women and children, especially in single-mother families, were, as always, hit hardest.

On average, a single-mother family would have received an additional $7,607 in government transfers.

Incomes of single-mother families did rise before the 1996 act passed.

Example: Children living in single-mother families are especially vulnerable to poverty.

Nearly 41 percent of single-mother families with children under 18 were living below the poverty line in 2010, according to the Census data.

The study also showed 48 percent of single-mother families with children younger than 19 also are living in poverty.

Hispanic single-mother families in poverty trailed at 1.2 million.

The exceptions were for white boys, aged eight to eleven, in single-mother families".

Besides, he says, perhaps 30 percent of poor single-mother families live with nonfamily members from whom they can derive support.

During the postwar era, millions of men were dead and the government was forced to legitimize single-mother families.

The largest growth occurred between 1970 and 1985, when the growth of single-mother families leveled off.

White single-mother families in poverty stood at nearly 1.5 million in 2011, comparable to the number for blacks.

You've heard much of it before, about single-mother families, drugs, dropouts, gangs and guns, but attention must be paid.

Is he suggesting that single-mother families are unstable?

Many local authorities adopted their own interpretation of the holiday: it would be a day to support economically larger families or single-mother families.

Single-mother families tend to be creeping around the poverty line with a poverty rate that is twice as high of that for men.

Example: In 1996, the average income of a single-mother family before government transfers (such as social assistance payments, employment insurance, child tax benefits, etc.) was $16,437.

The surge in importance of the female money-earner reflects increases in both single-mother families and mothers who out-earn their male partners.

"What Do We Know about Children from Single-mother Families?

If the underclass theorists have got it right, argues Kinsey, then nowhere will it be more apparent than among the children of welfare-dependent single-mother families.

Mothers, cops and welfare reformers know that the lack of a "father figure" in so many broken homes, or single-mother families, is one big cause of misdirected youth.

Among children in single-mother families in which the mother was employed full time but did not have a high school degree, the YCPR was 39 percent.

Family structure also correlates with this prevalence-for single-mother families are 40% more likely to have a CSHCN than two-parent households.

We have actually now the highest number of single-mother families living in poverty than at any time in recorded history — a 14 percent increase since President Obama took office.”