More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
I've eight brothers and sisters - five girls, four boys. I am the seventh.
Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.
The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.
There were three kids in my family. One of each sex.
I'm one of 32 first cousins on my mom's side, and 25 of us are boys.
The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . . The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.
The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off.
The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of Hispanic children and 36 percent of white children. Indeed, a single parent is the new norm.
