Think there are a lot of single
parents in America now? Well, the number is expected to become even greater.
A new report finds that one in four ******** in the United States is being raised by a single parent -- a percentage that is higher than in other developed countries, and expected to rise, according to The ********** Press
The U.S. had 25.8 percent of ******** being raised by a single parent, compared with an average of 14.9 percent across the 27 other industrialized countries studied by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
By 2025 to 2030, that percentage is expected to increase by 8 percent, the report predicts.
So why are so many moms and dads going it alone?
Experts say changing gender roles, the rise of contraception, high incarceration rates in some communities and an acceptance of having ******** out of wedlock have all contributed to the statistic. Others note that people are less likely to expect their marriages to last forever.
And while many American single parents do a terrific job raising their kids, they have higher rates of poverty, the report found.
"Single moms do a brilliant and amazing job raising their ********," Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, told the AP. "It is also true that single moms in this country are systemically underpaid, and systematically under-resourced and systemically unrespected. It's not the fact they are single moms that makes things difficult."
Do you think that one parent can do the job of two?