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Home Front: Culture Wars
Fathers disappear from American households
2012-12-27
In every state, the portion of families where children have two parents, rather than one, has dropped significantly over the past decade. Even as the country added 160,000 families with children, the number of two-parent households decreased by 1.2 million. Fifteen million U.S. children live without a father, and nearly 5 million live without a mother. In 1960, just 11 percent of American children lived in homes without fathers.

Though income is the primary predictor, the lack of live-in fathers also is overwhelmingly a black problem, regardless of poverty status, census data show. Among blacks, nearly 5 million children, or 54 percent, live with only their mother. Twelve percent of black families below the poverty line have two parents present, compared with 41 percent of impoverished Hispanic families and 32 percent of poor white families.

The largest geographic area of sustained fatherlessness contains the rural, largely black poor across Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, tributaries of broken homes running 400 miles along the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tenn., where in some neighborhoods 82 percent of children live with their mothers alone, to Baton Rouge, La., in parts of which less than one-fifth of children have both parents at home. Maine, Vermont and West Virginia have the lowest dual-parenthood rates for whites.
Posted by:Pappy

#9  To be fair, they've taken away some options. According too Instapundit, Widower/Divorcee/unwed mother are no longer options.
Posted by: Charles   2012-12-27 15:50  

#8  >What you subsidize, you get more of.

and AT LOWER QUALITY.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-12-27 15:50  

#7  Fathers, are you talking about Black households, White, Chinese, Indian, Japanese etc.

According to the article, it's black, hispanic and white households.
Posted by: Pappy   2012-12-27 15:03  

#6  tomatoe
Posted by: Shipman   2012-12-27 14:54  

#5   Don't forget how the media has been glorifying single-parent households for decades.

Can you say Murphy Brown boys and girls?
Posted by: AlanC   2012-12-27 11:16  

#4  Don't forget how the media has been glorifying single-parent households for decades.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2012-12-27 10:38  

#3  What you subsidize, you get more of. Just saying.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-12-27 04:27  

#2  I suspect the Left will be missing Daddy once the country goes over the fiscal cliff in January, + keeps falling straight thru 2016 iff not 2030.

REMEMBER, THE MORE DOMESTIC, GLOBAL CHAOS-N-ANARCHY, THE BETTER FOR NAU + .... + OWG.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-12-27 00:26  

#1  Define "Fathers, are you talking about Black households, White, Chinese, Indian, Japanese etc.

OR are they talking about White Gd fearing people, sounds suspiciously like a Slanted story.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-12-27 00:14  

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