Thursday, January 06, 2005

The Spread of Single-Parent Families in the United States since 1960

From the abstract : About half of all American children can expect to live with both of their biological parents at age fifteen, compared to two-thirds of children born in Sweden, Germany, and France, and nine-tenths of those born in Italy. This form of American exceptionalism reflects both higher rates of divorce and higher rates of breakup among cohabiting couples in the US. The increase in divorce, which began in the early 1960s but leveled off in the early 1980s, affected women at all educational levels. Source: Harvard J.F.K. School of Government Faculty Working Papers. Read entire abstract | Dowload PDF report

Subjects : Single Families : United States

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