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 ...

But among a large segment of the right, single parenthood is seen as an immoral family structure. If life can be made more difficult and expensive for single parents, the thinking apparently goes ...

To make America’s economy stronger, marriage and family structure must be acknowledged as a driving force. ... but instead focus on shoring up government support to single-parent families.