The percentage of children raised by a single parent is 10% or higher in all countries except Spain and exceeds 20% in four. (The U.S. tops the list at 27%.) The biggest differences are in the policies (or really, lack thereof) described above.

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Instead, children are put into the custody of a single parent after divorce.

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There will also be a series of lectures on subjects like how divorce affects children and coping as a single parent.

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More a quarter of American children are being raised in single-parent households, most of them poor.

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