Now 63, he grew up in public housing, in a single-parent family in Columbus, Georgia.
More a quarter of American children are being raised in single-parent households, most of them poor.
Rather than lock single-parent households into perpetual poverty, we ought to promote marriage, responsibility and virtue.
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Now 63, he grew up in public housing, in a single-parent family in Columbus, Ga.
For Britain now has a higher proportion of single-parent families than most other rich countries (see chart).
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Any one of these losses will harshly impact single-parent families, children, people with disabilities and the elderly.
He was raised by a single-parent mother who struggled to put herself through school and pay the bills.
Per the Census Bureau, poverty rates for married couples were 6.2 percent, but 27.3 percent for single-parent families.
Economic realities have also forced families to have both parents working and social realities have created more single-parent families.
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One would think an extra income contributed by a grandparent joining the household would help single-parent or even double-parent families.
But the rise of single-parent families in itself has complex social causes, and it will not be reversed by politicians.
Also introduced prefab, 500- square-foot Ikea homes, targeting single-parent households in Sweden.
Priory, 55, grew up in a single-parent household in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Obama himself grew up in a single-parent home after his father left.
Unlike Mexico, however, it has no slums or seriously deprived regions, no child malnutrition, practically no single-parent households and virtually no crime.
Unemployed young men, single-parent families, educational problems, illegal drug use they all remain.
Black children are more likely to be raised in single-parent homes than are white children and single-parent homes are less cognitively complex than two-parent homes.
The weakening of marriage has been heterosexuals' doing, not gays', for it is their infidelity, divorce rates and single-parent families that have wrought social damage.
Today, 35% of American children are being raised in single-parent families.
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Priory, 55, grew up in a single-parent household in Lakehurst, N.
But what Scarborough failed to mention is that same black man came from a single-parent home where the mom had to go on welfare just to feed her family.
Single-parent households are considerably rarer than among Afro-Caribbeans.
Curiously, as blogger Tom Maguire notes, Blow himself has written on the dangers of single-parent households to black children in particular--in 2008, when he congratulated Barack Obama for his candor in raising the question.
But they also warned inner city areas of London, Nottingham, Hull and Manchester, which commonly had young populations with unhealthy habits and high levels of single-parent families, were likely to face serious problems in the future.
At a time when many countries are attacking the rights of the most vulnerable sectors of society, Venezuela is providing ever greater protection for low-income senior citizens and single-parent families with younger children or disabled dependents.
Aside from the basics - utilities, schools, clean streets, efficient public transport - at which Tokyo traditionally excels, the Japanese megapolis provides sign-language interpreters for the deaf, home helpers for the elderly, and subsidies for single-parent households.
Persistent poverty is most acute among single-parent households: 29% of those in the bottom 30% of the income distribution in 1991 stayed there for the next five years, a higher proportion than for any other household type.
In 2006, Eddie left his power suit job at Tyson Foods to start his own foundation -- the Eddie Armstrong Scholarship Foundation -- dedicated to providing scholarships to minority students of single-parent homes and attending the University of Arkansas.
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