Two new books propose we quit idealizing the married-with-kids configuration and overhaul the single-parent household’s cultural status. In 1918, Jessie Ashley, a feminist lawyer from a genteel ...

The 2022 Current Population Survey from the Census Bureau estimates that there are nearly 7.9 million mother-only single-parent households in the U.S. "The notion that father-led families are ...

Family structure is an urgent policy matter, and we should treat it that way. This article has been adapted from Melissa S. Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped ...

To many Americans, the paragon of family structure will always be the two-parent household, but that doesn’t mean we need to be oblivious to the reality that single-parent households are sometimes ...

The evidence is overwhelming: Children from single-parent homes have more behavioral problems, ... journalists and advocates have taken a “live and let live” view of family structure.

From 1996 to 2019, the odds of a child from an intact family doing better academically than one from a fragmented family increased from 1.45 to 1.68—a “statistically significant change ...

The dynamics of family structure is undergoing a transformation. Declining fertility and mortality rates are leading to new ...

The report defined seven distinct and mutually exclusive family structures: nuclear, single-parent, blended, unmarried biological or adoptive families, cohabiting, extended, and other — the last ...