In 2023, there were around 7.21 million families with a male householder and no spouse present in the United States. You can get an overview on the total number of households in the U.S. here.

In 2023, there were about 15.09 million children living with a single mother in the United States, and about 3.05 million children living with a single father. The number of children living with a single mother is down from its peak in 2012, and the number of children living with a single father is down from its peak in 2005.

Marriage and divorce in the United States

Despite popular opinion in the United States that “half of all marriages end in divorce,” the divorce rate in the U.S. has fallen significantly since 1992. The marriage rate, which has also been decreasing since the 1990s, was still higher than the divorce rate in 2021. Half of all marriages may not end in divorce, but it does seem that fewer people are choosing to get married in the first place.

New family structures

In addition to a falling marriage rate, fewer people in the U.S. have children under the age of 18 living in the house in comparison to 1970. Over the past decade, the share of families with children under 18, whether that be married couples or single parents, has stayed mostly steady, although the number of births in the U.S. has also fallen.

In 2023, there were about 3.54 million white, non-Hispanic families with a single father living in the United States. This is an increase from 1990, when there were around 1.95 million white families with a single father in the U.S.

Graph and download economic data for Total One Parent Families with Children under 18 Years Old with Father (OPFWCUFO) from 1950 to 2024 about 18 years +, under 18 years, family, child, household survey, and USA.

In 2023, 11.4 percent of the families with a single father lived below the poverty level in the United States. Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing, and shelter.

About two million Hispanic families with a single father were living in the United States in 2023. However, this is still a significant increase from 1990, when there were about 341,000 Hispanic families with a single father living in the U.S.

This statistic shows the total number of male lone parents (single fathers) in Canada in 2020, distinguished by age group of father. In 2020, about 1,770 male lone parents aged between 0 and 24 years were living in Canada.

In 2021, about 386,000 Asian families with a single father lived in the United States. This is an increase from 2002, when there were 223,000 Asian families with a single father living in the U.S.

In 2023, 8.3 percent of white, non-Hispanic families with a single father were living below the poverty level in the United States. Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing, and shelter.

In 2019, about 171,000 Hispanic families with a single father were living below the poverty line in the United States. Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter.

When one of two parents disappears in the midst of caring for offspring, the remaining parent is left with several options. They can either i) desert the brood, ii) continue caring on their own and reject propositions from new potential partners, or iii) continue caring but remain receptive to re-mating opportunities. The presence of a brood may increase re-mating success of single parents, either because brood care is perceived as a signal of partner quality, or because prospective mates perceive the brood as a potential energy source. In this field experiment, we used the socially monogamous, biparental cichlid fish Variabilichromis moorii to examine the re-mating strategy of males with or without dependent offspring after the loss of their female partner. Partner vacancies were filled quickly by new females, and these females engaged in high levels of affiliative behavior with the males. The new females engaged in territorial defense but focused primarily against intruding conspecifi...

There are two sets of data; the first is a qualitative transcription, in-depth one-to-one interview with 31 HK Fathers rearing children with special needs conducted between February 2022 and September 2022. Thirty-one fathers with children with special were asked about their journey in rearing children with special needs. This data covers topics on fathers' experience of shame, guilt and other mixed emotions in various stages of caregiving for their children with special needs; the second is the quantitative online survey collected from 437 fathers between November 2022 and March 2023 that explored their level of father involvement, shame, guilt, avoidance, compensation, Chinese masculinity norms and culture while rearing children with special needs.

Note: Own children are never-married sons and daughters under the age of 18, including stepchildren and adopted children, of the householder or married couple.

This indicator provides the number of households with own children under the age of 18 along with the percentage of these that are single parent households. The percentages are of households with children under 18 years of age, not out of all housing units. Further, it specifies the percentages of households with children under 18 years of age that are single parent father or single parent mother households. Therefore, sum of single father household and single mother households will add to percent of single parent household with own children under 18.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau; 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Table S1101.

In 2021, roughly 261,000 children living with single fathers who never married were receiving food stamps in the U.S. Comparatively, there were 26,000 children living with single fathers who are widows receiving food stamps.

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This data collection includes syntax needed to: (1) merge data and commands used for weighting data; (2) derive the sample for analysis 1 (same father-mother households s1-5); (3) derive father involvement (dependent) variables; (4) derive Independent variables; (5) derive mother’s annual pay; (6) derive the relationship breakdown variables for analysis 2. All variable manipulations were derived to explore i) paternal involvement in childcare and housework, and ii) the association between paternal involvement in childcare and relationship stability.

One of the root causes of persistent gender inequalities in economic and political life is that women carry a heavier workload in the domestic domain where they still do most of the work involved in looking after children and other family members. Women's engagement in employment has risen over the last four decades but men's contribution to childcare and housework has grown more slowly. Sen's (1992) 'capability framework' elaborates how state and organisational policies, social norms, and household economic and demographic circumstances shape men and women's options, decisions and behaviours. This framework suggests there are many social, economic, demographic and cultural factors, which exert logistic pressures on the arrangement of the domestic division of labour in households. Yet the relative importance of these factors in shaping men's involvement in childcare remains under-researched and largely based on small-scale qualitative studies or cross-sectional survey data (Norman 2010; also see O'Brien 2005). Our earlier research (Norman 2010; Norman et al 2014; Norman and Elliot 2015) used the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) to develop measures of paternal involvement in childcare when the child was aged nine months and three years old. We found the mothers' employment hours had the strongest association with paternal involvement: if the mother worked full-time both nine months and three years after the child's birth then the father was more likely to be an involved parent when the child was aged three. Fathers were also more likely to be involved when the child was aged three if (i) they worked shorter hours in employment and (ii) if they were involved in childcare nine months after the child's birth; but the effect of both these variables was significantly weaker than that of the mothers' employment hours.

This research project will build on this analysis, using the MCS, by developing more measures of paternal involvement in childcare to establish which employment and socio-demographic characteristics shape paternal involvement as children age from nine months to eleven years old. Part of the analysis will focus on intact households to remove the confounding impact of relationship breakdown. We will also analyse the relationship between paternal involvement and the probability of households remaining intact given previous research has found a correlation between paternal involvement and the quality of a couple relationship (e.g. Poole et al. 2014).

The research questions to be addressed are: 1. How can we develop measures of paternal involvement over time as the child develops? 2. What are the key employment, socio-demographic, and attitudinal characteristics of fathers in the UK who report involved parenting behaviour when their child is aged 9 months, 3, 5, 7 and 11 years old? 3. Do trajectories of paternal involvement over the child's lifecourse vary between fathers and if so, what are the predictors? 4. Does paternal involvement when the child is aged nine months predict whether a household is still intact when the child reaches age eleven?

In examining these questions, the project aims to contribute to scholarly and policy debates about what encourages or impedes fathers' involvement in providing care for their children. It will make an original contribution to the literature on parental involvement by using a representative sample of fathers to develop measures of paternal involvement, identify differences among fathers and explore how their involvement develops as the child grows older. This is particularly relevant in light of the growing attention to fathers within policy debates about work-family issues across Europe (e.g. European Union 2013), including UK policy, where the introduction of shared parental leave is the most recent reform designed to provide better support for fathers and their involvement in childcare (BIS 2014).

In 2023, 9.1 percent of Asian families with a single father were living below the poverty level in the United States.Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter.

The dataset consists of texts written by parents aged under 40 on their experiences of parenthood. The study aimed to collect data on how parents experience and discuss their parenthood as well as what kinds of feelings parents have towards their children and other family members. In the writing guidelines, the participants were invited to write about their relationship with their children and other adults in the family and the feelings they experienced relating to parenthood. Additionally, the writers were asked to discuss how their perception of family life had changed after having children and what family meant to them. Background information included the participant's gender and age. The data were organised into an easy to use HTML version at FSD. The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Families of tax filers; Single-earner and dual-earner census families by number of children (final T1 Family File; T1FF).

The CAMEX-3 DC-8 Navigation Data Acquisition and Distribution System (DADS) data files contain information recorded by navigation and data collection systems onboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft. These data files contain typical navigation data (e.g. date, time, lat/lon, altitude), and meteorological parameters (e.g. wind speed and direction, temperature, saturation vapor pressure) collected in support of the third field campaign in the Convection And Moisture EXperiment (CAMEX) series, CAMEX-3. This field campaign took place from August to September 1998 based out of Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, with the purpose of studying various aspects of tropical cyclones in the region. These data are available in ASCII file format with browse imagery available in GIF file format. Each file contains data recorded at one second intervals for each flight.