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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. [13] This is in contrast to earlier decades, where having a child outside of marriage and/or being a single mother was not prominent.
In 2016 just under half (48%) of black women had never been married which is an increase from 44% in 2008 and 42.7% in 2005. 52% of black men had never been married. Also, 15% percent of black men were married to non-black women which is up from 11% in 2010. Black women were the least likely to marry non-black men at only 7% in 2017. [28]
Increasingly, single-parent families are due to out of wedlock births, especially those due to unintended pregnancy. From 1960 to 2016, the percentage of U.S. children under 18 living with one parent increased from 9 percent (8 percent with mothers, 1 percent with fathers) to 27 percent (23 percent with mothers, 4 percent with fathers). [7]
Despite that, 28 percent of single moms fall below the federal poverty line. Poverty rates are even worse for Black single moms, who make up almost 30 percent of all single moms in the country.
New data shows Black single mothers are facing dire economic challenges, making even basic expenses too hard to cover. According to a nationwide survey by The Current Project, 66% of Black single ...
In the study, 30 percent of Hispanic women said they kept their last name after marriage, while 10 percent of White women and 9 percent of Black women said the same.
In November 2016, the Current Population Survey of the United States Census Bureau reported that 69 percent of children under the age of 18 lived with two parents, which was a decline from 88 percent in 1960, while the percentage of U.S. children under 18 living with one parent increased from 9 percent (8 percent with mothers, 1 percent with ...
Top 10 cities with the most single women compared to men . ... Percent of the population aged 15 and over that is now married: Fremont, California: 58.4%. Plano, Texas: 56.0%.