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Released by the U.S. Census Bureau, according to America’s Families and household, since 1994, the percentage of single parent households showed little variation from 1994 through 2006.
According to Families and Living Arrangements, there were 12.9 million single parent families in 2006- 10.4 million single mother families and 2.5 single father families.




Today‘s Single parent Statistics:

• There are 14 million single parent families in America today..
  
• 21 million children are living in a household being raised by one parent..
• 83.1 percent are single mothers families..
• 16.9 percent are single fathers families..

 

According to the stats, single parent families is on the rise. These are high number of people, these statistics are scary but true, 21 million plus children are being raised by one parent today in America, with America having somewhere around 300 million plus citizens, that’s a large chunk and makes for some scary facts that shouldn’t be taken lightly.
Single Parents is faced with the challenges of not only playing both rolls for their children, but also keeping a general overall balance on things and keeping everything rolling smoothly, so that the kids don’t have to suffer for mistakes made in the past. It is the goal of most single parents, to keep their kids safe and instill the fact that they are loved and wanted even though one of the parents isn’t around.

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