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49% of all child abuse in the state of Michigan is committed by single mothers
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78% of single mothers maintained their own household, 69% of these mothers had no other adult in the home to help them
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About 45% of children raised by divorced mothers and 69% by never-married mothers lived in or near poverty
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76% of the children living in the single parents home had at least one parent working full time
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The number of children being raised by single mothers has more than tripled between 1960 and 2000
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Almost 70% of young men in prison grew up without fathers in the home
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The United States leads the world in fatherless families, with roughly 24 million children
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40% of children are growing up without fathers in the home
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50% of children without fathers in the home have never been in their father's home
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Children living with a never-married mother are more likely to have been treated for emotional problems
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Children reared by a divorced or never-married mother are less cooperative and score lower on tests of intelligence
