Credit Card and Debt Statistics Database
by Scott Bilker |
Single-Parent Households |
The percentage of households headed by single parents showed little variation from 1994 through 2006, at about 9 percent, up from 5 percent in 1970. There were 12.9 million one-parent families in 2006 — 10.4 million single-mother families and 2.5 million single-father families. Just over two-thirds (67 percent) of the nation's 73.7 million children younger than 18 lived with two married parents in 2006. Also in 2006, there were an estimated 5.8 million stay-at-home parents: 5.6 million mothers and 159,000 fathers. |
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Family,Marriage |
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Reporting Pub: |
U.S. Census Bureau |
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Reporting Date: |
3/27/2007 |
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Article
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Single-Parent Households Showed Little Variation Since 1994, Census Bureau Reports |
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Article
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U.S. Census |
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Pub's Source: |
U.S. Census |
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