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Another link between students with low educational attainment later becoming single parents has also been explored, [1] with high achievers being almost two-thirds less likely to become a single parent. Children lacking a mother figure are at greater risk academically than those lacking a father figure. [6]
In 2000, 11% of children were living with parents who had never been married, 15.6% of children lived with a divorced parent, and 1.2% lived with a parent who was widowed. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The results of the 2010 United States Census showed that 27% of children live with one parent, consistent with the emerging trend noted in 2000. [ 5 ]
A single parent is a person who has a child or children but does not have a spouse or live-in partner to assist in the upbringing or support of the child. Reasons for becoming a single parent include death, divorce, break-up, abandonment, becoming widowed, domestic violence, rape, childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption.
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Concerned about how declining populations will affect everything from economic growth to national security, the number of countries trying to increase birthrates grew from 19 in 1986 to 55 in 2015 ...
Children resulting from unintended pregnancies are more likely to live in poverty; [31] raising a child requires significant resources, so each additional child increases demands on parental resources. Families raised by a single parent are generally poorer than those raised by couples. [32]
The HuffPost/YouGov poll consisted of 3,000 completed interviews conducted May 8 to 29 among U.S. adults, including 124 women who are childless and reported not wanting children in the future. It was conducted using a sample selected from YouGov's opt-in online panel to match the demographics and other characteristics of the adult U.S. population.
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [5] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [5] The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. [13]