Single mother homes decline

In the last half of the 1990s the proportion of children living with single mothers declined slightly from about 20 percent to just more than 18 percent, reversing a trend that began in the 1960s.

Wendell Primus, with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said the new data from the Census Bureau “means roughly a million children are no longer living with just a single mother.”

However, the data show a corresponding increase in cohabitation. Amy Desai, analyst at Focus on the Family, said many chose cohabitation to receive more welfare benefits. (EP)