Fathering Gap: Pitfalls of Modern Fatherhood,‖ Time, June 15, 2011.) http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/15/the-fathering-gap-the-perils-ofmodern-fatherhood/
Citing data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) analyzed by the Pew Research Center, Luscombe presented the following picture of today‘s fathers‘ life with their children: . . . More than a quarter (27%) of all fathers with children under the age of 19 now live apart from at least some of their children. Black fathers (44%) are more than twice as likely to live apart from their kids as white fathers (21%), while just over a third of Hispanic fathers maintain a separate abode. Similarly, 40% of fathers who didn't finish high school are not residing with their children, a living situation shared by only 7% of fathers who graduated college. (Belinda Luscombe, ―The Fathering Gap: Pitfalls of Modern Fatherhood,‖ Time, June 15, 2011.) http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/15/the-fathering-gap-the-perils-ofmodern-fatherhood/
Michael J. Petrilli, Executive Vice President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, blogging in the column of Valerie Strauss, said this: This fall, about 1 million very poor children will enroll in kindergarten in the United States. The vast majority of them will live in single-parent families headed by women in their late teens or early twenties. Most of their mothers will have dropped out of high school; most of their fathers are nowhere to be seen. Most live in urban or rural communities hit hard by the recession, places where unemployment, addiction, and violence are all too commonplace. (Valerie Strauss, ―A school reformer gets real,‖ The Washington Post: The Answer Sheet, June 10, 2011.) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/a-school-reformergets-real/2011/06/09/AGcNWvNH_blog.html
In this regard, a 2011 online article summarized the statistics on what it termed ―the single parent household, overwhelmingly headed by mothers.‖ That article stated: Across all racial lines, mothers have borne the brunt of child-rearing responsibility, the numbers show. The percentage of white children living just with their mother went from 16% in 1991 to 19% in 2009, the census said. The corresponding percentage for Hispanic children went from 29% in 1991 to 26% in 2009. For black children, 47% lived with only their mother in 1991; 50% lived with only their mother in 2009. In 2009, 8% of Asian children lived just with their mother. (Craig Johnson, ―Economy sends more kids to grandma‘s house, CNN.com, July 28, 2011.) http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/07/28/grandfamilies.census.rise/index.ht ml?hpt=hp_bn8
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