Census: Number of Kids Raised by Single Moms Doubles
by Kit Daniels
Francesco Abbruzzino, The Uncensored Report, LLC
The amount of children raised by single moms has doubled since 1968, according to the US Census Bureau.
Children living with a single mother is now the second most common U.S. living arrangement, with about 15.3 million (21%) in 2020, compared to 7.6 million (11%) in 1968.
“Monitoring these trends is important because children’s living arrangements can have implications for children’s outcomes, such as academic achievements, internalizing problems (e.g., depression and anxiety), and externalizing problems (e.g., anger and aggression),” the Census Bureau reported. “Since 2007, the CPS has specifically asked respondents to identify two parents for the child if both live in the household.”
“If one parent is deployed overseas at the time of interview, for example, children are shown as living with one parent. The same goes for separated or divorced parents sharing custody: The parent the child is living with during the interview would be the identified parent.”
Additionally, the Census Bureau said the number of children raised by two parents dropped by 85% in 1968 to 70% today.
“An astonishing 40 percent of all children born in the United States in 2007 were born to unwed parents and thus began life in fragile families,” according to a 2010 study. “That share was more than twice the rate in 1980 (18 percent) and an eightfold increase from the rate in 1960 (5 percent).”
Interestingly, this 2010 study correctly predicted the 2020 census results that one-fifth of all children are born to single mothers.
Meanwhile, a recent Gallup poll found that church membership among Americans is below 50% for the first time ever.
“In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque,” the outlet reported. “U.S. church membership was 73% when Gallup first measured it in 1937 and remained near 70% for the next six decades, before beginning a steady decline around the turn of the 21st century [the year 2000].”
