Statistics by Race, Ethnicity and Family Nativity Data from 2019 indicates that: Black and American Indian kids are most likely to live in a single-parent families (64% of Black children and 52% of American Indian children fit this demographic).
57.6% of black children, 31.2% of Hispanic children, and 20.7% of white children are living absent their biological fathers.
The main cause of single parent families are high rates of divorce and non-marital childbearing. According to a 2019 study from Pew Research Center, the United States has the world's highest rate of children living in single-parent households.
Black women divorce at a higher rate (38.9%) than women of any other race. The military divorce rate is 3% on average. In 2019 alone, 30,608 military marriages ended in divorce. Baby Boomers have the highest divorce rate among other generations - 34.9%.
Policy context: In the 2021 Census, of the families in Australia, 43.7% were couple families with children, 38.8% were couple families without children and 15.9% (1,068,268 families) were one parent families: 79.8% of single parents were female and 20.2% were male [1][2].
Around half (52.3%) of single mothers have never married, almost a third (29.3%) are divorced, 18.4% are either separated or widowed. Half have one child, 30% have two. About two thirds are White, one third Black.
Together with Hungary (also 21 percent), this puts the United States at the top among the countries. On average across all 28 countries, the share of single-parent families is 14 percent.
The fertility rate in the United States in 2020 was 56.0 per 1,000 women ages 15-44. Of all live births in the United States during 2018-2020 (average), 23.7% were Hispanic, 52.1% were white, 15.2% were black, 0.8% were American Indian/Alaska Native and 6.8% were Asian/Pacific Islander.
Fertility Patterns Among Mothers by Race and Ethnicity. Among mothers near the end of their childbearing years, Hispanics and blacks have the largest families.
Black men aren't significantly more or less likely to have children than other races; census reports show that about 75% of white men, 80% of Black men, 81% of Asian men, and 83% of Hispanic men ages 40–49 have kids.
Close to 10% of Hispanic children, 8% of black children, and 7% of white children live in a home with cohabiting parents, either with their two parents or one parent and his or her unmarried partner. Cohabiting parenthood is less common among Asian families, where only 3% of Asian children live with cohabiting parents.
Women are more likely than men to be single parents, for example, and also more likely to live alone in later years. Earlier in this report, all age and gender groups were included when analyzing shares of people in different types of households.
My general response is that it's a 50/50 chance that a woman will have a boy or a girl. But that's not exactly true – there's actually a slight bias toward male births. The ratio of male to female births, called the sex ratio, is about 105 to 100, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Among solo parents, however, the vast majority (81%) are mothers; only 19% are fathers. This gender difference is even more pronounced among black solo parents: 89% are mothers and just 11% are fathers.
According to a new report just released by the National Health Center for Health Statistics, there has been a sharp decline in the number of kids born to single moms. About 1.6 million women who weren't married had kids in 2012, down from 1.75 million in 2007 and 2008.
For the first time, more than 1 million families in Australia are headed by a single parent – and in most cases this parent is female.
The racial group with the lowest divorce rate was Asian-Americans, with only 18 percent of women and 16 percent of men reporting that they have been divorced or married more than once.
It is no surprise, then, that marital infidelity is a leading cause of divorce.
White wife/Black husband marriages show twice the divorce rate of White wife/White husband couples by the 10th year of marriage, whereas Black wife/White husband marriages are 44% less likely to end in divorce than White wife/White husband couples over the same period.
In 2021, there were about 1.22 million Black families with a single father living in the United States. This is an increase from 1990, when there were 472,000 Black families with a single father in the U.S.