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NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. How do people treat you? The photograph showed the son, but my eye gravitated toward the mother. Single fathers are also somewhat less educated than single mothers, older and more likely to be white. We can feel left out of social events. In some cases, a non-marital partner may also be a biological or adoptive parent of the minor child in the household. And it - the sort of demonization or marginalization happens not only to the mothers, but to the children, as well. Does this conversation about women raising children alone resonate with you? Indeed, children raised by single mothers are even more likely to reach higher professional and educational levels than children raised in households headed by a stepfather or single father . And when I - you know, when I heard the Pew Institute study that single motherhood is bad for society, I found that statement really problematic as though it's the mother's fault. Obama attended local schools in Jakarta. We live in an upper-middle-class economic, socioeconomic area. support receipt. Thanks for the invitation. Will Democrats and Big Tech ever apologize? "He credits her with impressing upon him the importance upon one's duty to others perhaps that the best thing that one can do is to give opportunities for others," Scott tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. A record 8% of households with minor children in the United States are headed by a single father, up from just over 1% in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Decennial Census and American Community Survey data. Of course, there is a wide array of single mothers. All the men in the film, including the directors son, adopted loving and supportive men to fill the role of their father. "At the University of California, Berkeley, she met my father, Donald Harris . His elastic-band body bespoke discipline, even asceticism. Across all income levels, single mothers are the group more likely to lack health insurance but the uninsured rates among single mothers have fallen in recent years thanks to Obamacare. 23.4%. Accuracy and availability may vary. That's really irritating, and it's so not true of what we're feeling out here in the world. I mean, obviously, it skews in this very interesting way because the sort of person of first responsibility inevitably is the mother in American society. She is currently working on a new book about the future of the family in America. I would say in the grand scheme of things, I turned out okay. Throughout his career, former Vice President Joe Biden has returned, over and over, to a pivotal time in his life the years after he lost his first wife, Neilia, and their young daughter in a car accident. They know and believe in their hearts that, really, children are better off being raised by two loving parents. It was a complicated decision and one that most people don't give her credit for, Scott says: "She was juggling a number of things: She wanted her son to get a good English-language education, which wasn't available to her in Indonesia. WATCH LIVE: Merrick Garland testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee, The Left's utopian open border policies are unsustainable, No bail and no brains: Seattle judge releases accused mass shooter. A few months after receiving the photo, I wrote an article for The New York Times about Dunham. No matter the route and circumstances, all single parents share a common ground. We're talking about a Pew survey that found attitudes towards single motherhood to be, well, about seven and 10 of Americans thought it was bad for society. The biggest problem with the fatherlessness label is that it oversimplified. "And she believed that he would never get that if he didn't have a strong English-language education. 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I think that my half of the political spectrum the left half too often dismisses the importance of family structure, noted New York Times columnist David Leonhardt, responding to another of Chettys studies. Rising Stars Whose Parents Are Superstars, Stars and Their Famous Grandkids at the Same Age, Old Hollywood and Their Lookalike Children, Famous People Who Were Raised By Single Mothers, The Ups And Downs Of Angelina Jolie's Relationship With Her Dad, Jon Voight. Almost one third (24.3%) of single mother families were food insecure, 12 about one-ninth (11.7%) used food pantries, one third spent more than half their income on housing, which is generally considered the threshold for severe housing cost burden.. I was 39 when I had my son, and I was just a month shy of 40. There are still nuclear families in America, but there are also unmarried parents, gay parents, families without children, and single parents. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. And I just thought: Wow, that's a really huge burden. off: They have the highest poverty rate. Of course he was referring to his favorite subject himself as if he'd blazed a new trail of opportunity. "She made it look easy, though I know it never was.". We all know heartbreak, the fear of becoming sick, or losing our income because our children rely solely on us. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. For children born to mothers with less than a high school education, growing up in a married household doesn't make as much of a difference: 67.9% of children growing up in unmarried households . Ms. POLS: But - so I do think there is a - there's just - there is a problem. And they read about single motherhood, and they see the consequences of it. Each week, we send out a newsletter containing the news and headlines that matter most to parents. In the beginning, particularly because of speaking to so many people about President Obama's mother's life, and of course that covered his birth, I really had no question as to where he was born. In 2008, 1.7 million. Many men raised by single mothers Ive worked with in therapy have demonstrated the same impressive tenacity and grit as the men in the film. And these mothers can't - they're working three, four jobs, have two, three children and can't provide the financial means to put their children in a position of privilege where they don't get in trouble. You have to be financially wise, and mostly, you are forced to reach outside of yourself to find alternative emotional and social supports. and statistics regarding growing educational and economic disparities between men and women, and changes in family structure, and found that the decline of two-parent households is particularly hard Partly out of a worthy desire to celebrate the heroism of single parents, progressives too often downplay family structure. Among all homeless families nationwide, about two thirds (60%) were headed by single women with children representing 21% of the total homeless population; nearly half were African Americans (49%). I was inspired by how genuine each of the men were. She went back to Indonesia during that period and confided to a friend how distraught and upset she was to be reduced to one sentence. Of course, I know others view me differently. Age differences also contribute to the differences in financial well-being between the two groups. And I'm going to be a good mother, and I'm so excited to hear that somebody's got an upstanding freshman in college, a single mother. Someof the most influential people in the world wereeven raised by a strong single mother. The history of the United States is filled with stories of single mothers raising successful men. Angelina Jolie's parents, Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, separated when the Mr. and Mrs. Smithactress was an infant. associated with poor health in middle age, financial hardship and depression. CONAN: Let's see if we can go next to Adel(ph). And at some point, I found this quote by her where - she was a single mother, and I think she may have had her child under somewhat unusual circumstances with someone who was a friend or something like that. I had a baby on my own at 40 because I decided that I had the rest of my life to find true love and partnership, but only a small window in which to conceive a child. The focus on men and boys shouldnt distract from a larger problem: single mothers and their daughters may be doing better, but they cant be said to be thriving. 1. The issue is the outcomes that come from a child being raised by just one parent. Dunham taught English, worked in rural development and consulted on microfinance projects. She taught us to be conscious and compassionate about the struggles of all people. Ones that come to mind would be Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover (completely orphaned at around age 9, somewhat raised by an uncle), Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton to some extent, Barack Obama mostly, and probably some of the 19th Century Presidents but I don't know enough about. I have always tried to put on a brave face and emphasized the strength Ive gained from parenting on my own. Single parents should be respected for how they meet a greater challenge. Their work is the hardest work. How? This Harvard research is part and parcel of a larger effort to call into question the idea that married, two-parent families matter not just for Black children but, indeed, all children. 9. According to 2017 data, there are more than 16 million unmarried parents in America raising over 24million children. But they always called me first - always. When we come back, we'll bring you an update on Libya. About 32% for a school-age child. The hit was felt even harder for the lowest wage single moms who work in service jobs. I mean, I think about it all the time. These are the constellations that usually make us feel supported and part of a larger community. In raw and unscripted interviews, each man opens his heart, sheds tears about his mothers struggle, and expresses how his mother remains a constant source of inspiration. Young white men from single-parent families, for instance, are more likely to end up in prison than young Black men from intact, two-parent homes. Only 11% received cash benefits from TANF. PAIGE: This is very interesting to me, just from a sociological perspective and being a budding sociologist in school right now and raising two children, two teenagers as a single mother. Click on TALK OF THE NATION. Child care subsidy, if eligible, is hard to come by. Among the 14 states not expanding Medicaid coverage, the median eligibility level for parents is just 44% FPL, with only two (2) states Tennessee, and Wisconsin, covering parents with incomes at or near poverty. However, single father householders differ from single mother householders on several indicators. Overall, two-thirds (67%) of households with children are headed by two married parents; in 1960, this share was 92%.4. ALAN: I had the opposite. And as you know, studies suggest the children pay the price. To believe public service is a noble cause and the fight for justice is a shared responsibility," she said. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. That's five years before he becomes a community development person in Chicago.". SHELLY (Caller): Hi. | Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World, a marked increase in the share of non-marital births, The Rising Age Gap in Economic Well-Being, Single Fathers are Younger, Less Educated, A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression, As Millennials Near 40, Theyre Approaching Family Life Differently Than Previous Generations, As family structures change in U.S., a growing share of Americans say it makes no difference. President Barack Obama was raised by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, from the time that he was born until he was 4 years old, when she married Lolo Soetoro. Families headed by single mothers are among the poorest households, more than a third lived in poverty, and as such, are extremely vulnerable to homelessness. Some women choose to raise children by themselves. President Barack Obama was raised by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, from the time that he was born until he was 4 years old, when she married Lolo Soetoro. Other celebs on this list include Christina Aguilera, SeanCombs, Mariah Carey, and AliciaKeys. And I raised her, raised her by myself, and CONAN: And what were people's attitudes like? Heres what she had to say: Do you think there are any positive aspects of boys growing up without fathers? The prevalence of single fatherhood is closely linked to educational level; the more education a father has, the less likely he is to head a single father household. Single fathers include those fathers who report that their minor child has been living or staying with them for at least two months. It just means that the chances - the likelihood that bad things will happen is increased if you grow up in a single-parent household. There's no dad here. She carried her chin a few degrees higher than most. Thirty-three percent of millennial moms living with their own children are unmarried, according to the Pew Research Center. While this family unit is the ideal, many Church members find themselves in a variety of other circumstances, including in single-parent families. While 61% of single fathers living with no spouse or partner are white, this share is 49% for cohabiting single fathers. Like Biden and Harris, we all know the courage that grows from loss, whether it's the loss of our spouse through death or divorce, the loss of living with one parent, or the loss of a dream of having a child with someone you love. Pierce Brosnan's father abandoned his family when the Matador actor was a baby. 15. Do a quick search of boys raised without fathers and youll quickly find yourself buried under an avalanche of horrifying statistics. A similar conclusion comes from a study of 39 nations: Children were better off if they were raised by a single mother than by two married parents who were arguing all the time. (Pew Research, 2019) The second highest country with the most children in single parent households is the UK (21%), followed by Russia (18%), and Sao Tome and Principe (19%). PostedJune 4, 2016 I'm actually not a single mother, but I represent juveniles accused of crime in the juvenile justice system. I had to learn quickly not to pay attention to what anyone thought. Deep in grief, he took on the role of single father to his two sonsbefore he married his current wife, Jill. He described those qualities as a source of her strength in many ways. It was one in a series of biographical articles on then Senator Obama that the Times published during the presidential campaign. Readmore, By the time children are in middle school, parents should be stepping back. Ms. POLS: That would probably cause me to teeter right over into the skeptic group myself. ", On interviewing President Obama for the book, "I asked him about the [implication left] by his book that his mother was sort of a naive idealist something that comes through in the way he talks and sometimes in the way other family members talk about her. Beth Akers:To all parents: Dont break the bank to send your kids to their dream school. But, you know, I guess I have to say, you know, it's a pretty big question to ask someone in the office, right? Ms. POLS: You know, I - well, first of all, I just have to say to the woman in Alaska that soon they will start brushing their own teeth and putting on their own pajamas, which is really a wonderful thing. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Right now, I'm just wondering if, you know, the Downeast Oil Company had deposited $600 more of oil into my furnace today while I've been gone and I'll have to pay it, but things are better. I'm fascinated by this subject. You're in a very fortunate situation, and you are lucky, as is your son. With all the endless negative statistics about fatherless households, do you ever feel discouraged about your sons future? And, you know, every school that my child has been at has had both of our phone numbers. Thomas Jefferson was. One thing that we don't want to do is attempt to demonize single mothers or necessarily demonize the American public. And for me, it's like: Wow, here I am latching on to "Toy Story" as an example of a single mother celebrated in culture by doing a good job with her kids. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. The problems that create a cycle of poverty for men and boys catch women as well. And on most of these issues, in fact all but single motherhood, they're very accepting, very tolerant of changes. The American family has changed. I mean, some of their husbands have passed away. Among dads with some college, 17% are single fathers, and just 7% of fathers with a bachelors degree fall into this category. This list of famous people raised by single mothers looks into the surprising childhoods of some of your favorite celebrities. 14. They have the highest rate of no health care coverage. disadvantage, with the consequences appearing larger for boys than girls. Sometimes research results are politically incorrect, or even offensive for some of us, and still worth talking about. Its hard. Among children with single mothers, 38% get food stamps and 62% dont. And I'm sure that there are a lot of people in Janine's(ph) - excuse me, category, but I wonder, Mary Pols, if you sympathize with Lynn. I am still raising my son, but he sees my commitment to several activities that keep me calm and balanced. The big one is is that people know single mothers. TANF benefit levels for a family of three, as of 2020, were less than 30% of the poverty line in 33 states and the District of Columbia and above 50% in none. You can be both, President Trump. Ms. McWilliams begins the film with her own pregnancy and fearlessly records her parenting struggles with his son from infancy through his teen years. Black children raised by single parents are three times more likely to . Her form was well padded, territory ceded long ago to the pleasures of appetite and the forces of anatomical destiny. The land of opportunity where "the son of a single mom can be president of the greatest nation on Earth," as President Obama put it in his State of the Union speech Tuesday. 800 . You know, informed speculation would suggest probably the number was larger in the past than it is now, but still, when you have 69 percent saying it's bad for society, that's a large number and a fairly clear judgment. Legal Momentum, a womens legal defense and education fund, writes that the U.S. does much less than its high-income peers to assure single-parent families basic economic security, and much less And boy, there's a lot of emails coming in. CONAN: And broadly, the groups broke into three categories: accepters, rejecters and, in the middle, people you call skeptics. It was truly a blessing to have been in the room with each of them, they spoke and I listened. At Motherlode, lead writer and editor KJ DellAntonia invites contributors and commenters to explore how our families affect our lives, and how the news affects our familiesand Children raised by single mothers are more likely to fare worse on a number of dimensions, including their school achievement, their social and emotional development, their health and their . Since most single-parent households are by women, it's - the real issue is single moms. Knowing what you value will help you build the most meaningful life possible. The majority of the 11 million single-parent families in the United States are headed by single mothers, . A record 8% of households with minor children in the United States are headed by a single father, up from just over 1% in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Decennial Census and American Community Survey data. Join us to talk about education, child care, mealtime, sports, technology, the work-family balance and much more. She returned to Honolulu in 1963; she and Obama divorced in 1964. High conflict levels at home inherently cause the greatest damage to childrens wellbeing. I am not a fan of single motherhood being myself a single mother of two small children. 3 Myths of Children Raised by Single Mothers. I'm Neal Conan. His father didn't abandon his family, but Clinton never met his father. Single mothers earn income that place them well below married mothers in the income ladder. And not to say that there aren't wonderful, wonderful responsible fathers, but I think just our societal inclination is to say CONAN: Anyway. It's the judges. In 1990, they numbered about 790,000 (61% of all single father households), and by 2011 that number had risen to almost 1.6 million. Fatherless boys suffer from anger issues or depression. From academia to the policy world, most sensible people acknowledged the importance of strong and stable families for kids. In 1972, Scott says, Dunham rejoined her son in Hawaii and stayed there during his middle school years. We have an email here from Shel(ph) in Durham, North Carolina: I took that Pew poll, and I answered that single moms were bad for society. And while 22% of fathers with no spouse or partner have a bachelors degree or more, the share of cohabiting fathers with this level of education is less than half that (10%). And we'll start with Paige(ph), and Paige is on the line with us from Charlottesville in Virginia. BARACK OBAMA, MARCH 18, 2008. I was very careful about dating and so forth until she was like a senior in high school because my main concern was to be a good father. Ms. MARY POLS (Journalist, Time; Author, "Accidentally On Purpose"): Thank you, nice to be here. In an Atlantic article celebrating family diversity, the sociologist Pamela Braboy Jackson said, All of our research points to the fact that its the quality of the relationship that matters, and the handling of communication and conflict, and the number of people in the household is not really the key for the welfare of our kids. Follow them on Twitter:@bradwilcoxIFSand@IanVRowe. When President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1963, 93 percent of American children were born to married parents. Its my personal feeling that it's in the best interest of the child (boy or girl) that they can have a relationship with their father. I'm, you know, I'm pregnant, I'm going to come in looking pregnant, and there's really nothing much I can do about it, and people are just going to have to roll with it the way I'm rolling with it. Public opinion ascribes roughly the same hierarchy of roles to mothers. Median household income is adjusted using an equivalence scale that corrects for economies of scale, and is then standardized to represent a three-person household. And I don't feel that way. CONAN: It's interesting. Ms. POLS: There is a little bit. And it seemed to me, as I looked at the survey, the most interesting result was that a great majority of the skeptics were very tolerant of all those other things - interracial marriage, gay couples raising parents, that sort of thing - but they were among those who found problems with single motherhood. The racial makeup of single-mother families has not changed very much over time. Mr. MORAN: You know, that could be the case. CONAN: Here's an email we have from Cynthia(ph) in Billings. Some of their husbands are abusers. And so my whole life, Ive tried to be for Michelle and my girls what my father was not for my mother and me, he told the graduates of Morehouse College in 2013. But in fact, the story of presidents being raised by single mothers is as old as America itself. I don't know what the answer would have been had we asked about single fathers. Director Daphne McWilliams bravely explores the health and hardiness of men raised by single mothers. Single fathers are much less likely to be black15% areas compared with single mothers (28%), but more likely to be black than fathers in married two-parent households (7%). He joined us from the Pew Research Center here in Washington, D.C. We're going to continue with Mary Pols, and we want to hear from single moms today. Absolutely NOT! Single fathers are younger than married fathers, but older than single mothers. Biden and Harris openness about these family influences has also given power to a job that is often stigmatized by Republicans. Mr. RICH MORAN (Senior Editor, Pew Research Center): Thank you. Putnam And I think that part of the negative view of women raising children on their own is because of the view that our culture has of women. It doesnt reveal why some children in the studies are without a father. But first, Rich Moran, senior editor at the Pew Research Center, joins us today from their offices in Washington. The fraction of low-income Black fathers present in a neighborhood. No matter how you cut it., Kamala Harris has also said that her mother, divorced and single, was her primary role model. Stay with us. There is this sense, which I think kind of reminds me a little bit of the way my parents, who were, you know, children of the Depression, they used to discourage me from playing with the children of divorced parents, as if, you know, I would just go over there and immediately start dropping acid because they were divorced parents, you know Ms. POLS: Yeah. Reviewed by Ekua Hagan. Rich Moran, is this sexism, pure and simple? Around half (51.4%) of single mothers have never married, almost a third (29.3%) are divorced, 19.2% are either separated or widowed. I was widowed when my children were in elementary school. Hailing from the Ivory Tower in 2015, scholars from Brookings and Princeton reported on the new scientific consensus: most scholars now agree that children raised by two biological parents in a stable marriage do better than children in other family forms across a wide range of outcomes.. Colbert . They lack the paid-time-off-from-work entitlements that in comparison countries The men also exhibit sensitivity and compassion for their absent fathers. CONAN: Rich Moran, I wonder: Have you got any kind of database that can show whether attitudes have changed over the years? Ms. McWilliams begins the film with her own pregnancy and fearlessly records her. I mean, these are low-income families, and these - I mean, if you're a rich kid going to a private school, getting into a schoolyard fight is not a big deal. You can join the conversation by going to our website. I am stronger and I - exactly, I am empowered. CONAN: All right, Paige, thanks very much for the call. Vicky Waltz. Ironically, the work of another scholar just across the Harvard campus from Cross, Raj Chetty, also refutes the idea that Black fathers dont matter. As a result of the article, I was offered a chance to write a book on Dunham, and I spent two and a half years following her trail. We did not ask - we didn't ask that. Adel's with us from Birmingham. 1. Are you treated differently because you're a single mom, do you think? 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