In 1995, nearly six of 10 children living with mothers only were near the poverty line. About 45 percent of children raised by divorced mothers and 69 percent by never-married mothers lived in or near poverty, which was $13,003 for a family of three in 1998.
Census Brief CENBR/97-1, Bureau of the Census www.census.gov, September 1997.
75% of children/adolescents in chemical dependency hospitals are from single-parent families.
(Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA)
More than one half of all youths incarcerated for criminal acts lived in one-parent families when they were children.(Children's Defense Fund)
63% of suicides are individuals from single parent families
(FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - Investigative Aid)
75% of teenage pregnancies are adolescents from single parent homes Med andra ord: Barn till ensamstående är ofta fattiga, hög risk för att hamna i fängelse, och högre risk att begå självmord.
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