Do Single Parent Households Cause or Coincide with Poverty?

More children than ever before are living in single parent households. This also means that fewer children live with both a father and mother than ever before in history. this is due to many factors, among them are divorce, births outside a marriage, and changes in marriage and cohabitation. Many studies have been done on the effects of single parent households on children within those households, and while the data is there, the data is also very difficult to disaggregate. So many factors lead to other factors. Contrary to what many people would like to believe, single-parent families, on the whole, have a host of problems brought on by many forces; one of those forces is living in single-parent households.