Single mothers struggle to pay for child care. In many cases, the average cost of child care is far out of reach for a single mother, especially for those with two or more children. Although the federal government provides some child care subsidies for low-income parents, the reality is that parents still pay a significant [...]
Believe it or not, there was a time when America seriously considered poverty to be a major problem where the government had to step in to help deal with it. We even had to “wage a war” on poverty back in the 60’s to elevate the middle class and bring a greater sense of equality [...]
Kay Hymowitz, contributing for the Winona Daily News, singled out single motherhood – or ‘lone motherhood’ – as a significant contributor for poverty in America.1 Hymowitz points out statistics showing 40 percent of single-parent families are poor compared to just 8.8 percent of two-parent families, which is pretty significant when you consider that more than [...]
Looks like it isn’t just women who are looking to care for children. Whether by adoption, by artificial insemination or by choosing to care for a child from a previous encounter with a woman, more and more men are looking to care for children of their own. This is a trend fueled by the gradual [...]
Single motherhood is very common. Around half of today’s mothers will spend at least some time as the sole custodial parent. As of 2012, 12.2 million families in the US were headed by a single parent, 84.1% of which were headed by a female.