Single Parents, Around the World
A sizable minority of children in rich countries live with just one parent — a parent who is likely to be female, and also likely to be working.
Those are some of the takeaways from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s recent coverage this week of women in the world.
Across the industrialized world, about 15.9 percent of children live in single-parent households. The United States is at the higher end of the single-parent spectrum, with 25.8 percent of its children living with just a mother or a father.
Usually it is just a mother. In the United States, as in every other industrialized country, most single-parent households are single-mother households: Read more
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