Single parent
In the United States, 83% of single parents are mothers. Among this percentage of single mothers: 45% of single mothers are currently divorced or separated, 1.7% are widowed, 34% of single mothers never have been married. Although decades ago, having a child outside of marriage and/or being a single mother was not prominent. Census information from 1960 tells us that in that year, only nine percent of children lived in single parent families. Today four out of every ten children are born to an unwed mother.
Single Parenthood Children and Academia
One parent households are a common epidemic. In the US, almost half of all children will be the product of a single parent household by the time they will reach high school. Children in single parent households are more likely to behave in disobedient activity, are less efficient in science and math, and are less likely that two parent households to graduate from high school, attend college etc.. Children in special education classes are more likely to be from that of a one parent household as well as of ethnic minority.