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.
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.
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.
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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Stay-at-home parents should qualify for a new government program while they are raising young children--one that provides money for good food, as well as education on cooking, meal planning and shopping--so that one parent in a two-parent household, or a single parent, can afford to be home with the children and provide wholesome, healthy meals.
But everyone gets two copies of the gene--one from each parent--and even a single M scuttles any hope for a magical career.
She'd been a single parent to their ten-year-old daughter, finished her nursing degree, and handled the family's finances.
She is an uber-mom, a hardworking single parent who wants to look good and wants her kids to look good, too.
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