Each of their stories were the very thing that pushed me to complete this film (which I did with my own savings and credit cards). Ms. McWilliams suddenly finds herself unwittingly thrust into the world of single moms. With all the endless negative statistics about fatherless households, do you ever feel discouraged about your sons future? Readmore. Of all single-parent families in the U.S., single mothers make up the majority. And boy, there's a lot of emails coming in. The Motherlode blog welcomes our new artist-in-residence, illustrator Men raised by women are often more sensitive and attuned emotionally. Rachel Lehmann-Haupt is an author of "In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood," and a single mother by choice. families is every man for himself. That struggle is magnified for single parents. I remember my boss calling me into his office, and we were talking about it, and, you know, maybe I was four months pregnant or something like that. The children of lower-income parents are ever more I think that it's telling that the question didn't get asked of men raising children by themselves. Single fathers are also somewhat less educated than single mothers, older and more likely to be white. But, you know, I guess I have to say, you know, it's a pretty big question to ask someone in the office, right? Naturally, this would be case-by-case, but I think children should know both of their parents. Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, single motherhood is now becoming the new norm. "At the University of California, Berkeley, she met my father, Donald Harris . She works for Time magazine, and she joined us from Maine Public Broadcasting Network in Portland. 79.5%. In the capsule version of Obama's life story, she is the white mother from Kansas coupled alliteratively with the black father from Kenya. 3. And I raised her, raised her by myself, and CONAN: And what were people's attitudes like? The American family has changed. By comparison, only 6.7% were uninsured in two-parent households. The Times is introducing Well Family, a new online report with expanded coverage of parenting, childhood health and relationships to help every family live well.Readmore, I cant promise that our foster son can stay with us, but I can I try to prepare him for the possibility of leaving without adding to his fear. Obama Sr. stayed in school in Hawaii, and Dunham returned to Seattle with her newborn baby, Barack. In fact, it is their history that fuels their determination to honor and love their own sons and daughters even more. The biggest problem with the fatherlessness label is that it oversimplified. Ms. POLS: Well, you know, I've had - I'm sort of a little bit of a freak of a single mother in that I feel like even economically, my life has actually gotten better as a single mother. than its high-income peers to help single parents balance jobholding and caregiving. His research (with his co-author, Laurie Maldonado) compared American single-parent families with single-parent families in 16 other high-income countries, and found that American single-parent families are worst In fact, it dates back our first president, George Washington to President Obama. This is TALK OF THE NATION. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. 23.4%. all families. You know, where do I fit in? While 61% of single fathers living with no spouse or partner are white, this share is 49% for cohabiting single fathers. No matter the route and circumstances, all single parents share a common ground. 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. You can be both, President Trump. More often than not, when I tell people that Im a single mother by choice, they say Good for you!Politicians who recognize and support these shifts in the shapes of the American family will gain more votes. We see many of them in action, waking their kids in the morning, preparing meals, dropping their sons and daughters off at school. Single parents should be respected for how they meet a greater challenge. CONAN: And studies also suggest that it's the educational achievements of the mom, no matter what, how many parents there are in the family, the determining factor of how well their children are likely to do. That's five years before he becomes a community development person in Chicago.". So I think our society is biased to the point that we've put these women in really difficult positions. Some married two-parent households include a step-parent. Single fathers are more likely than single mothers to be living with a cohabiting partner (41% versus 16%). 6 Half have one child, 30% have two. It's not been good. 3. She needed to be able to work to pay for the education she wanted for her son and her daughter. Single fathers are younger than married fathers, but older than single mothers. Ms. MARY POLS (Journalist, Time; Author, "Accidentally On Purpose"): Thank you, nice to be here. But what if another child wont stop annoying yours?Readmore, In November, this family adopted five young children from foster care. She returned to Indonesia to do anthropological field work shortly after he entered high school. 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. Single fathers living apart from their children are not included here; see . (primarily single mothers). And there was part of me that thought: Well, this is an extraordinarily improper conversation. How do people treat you? Among dads with some college, 17% are single fathers, and just 7% of fathers with a bachelors degree fall into this category. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. I don't think it's - I definitely don't think it's deliberate. 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. When articles about the book started coming out, they referred to his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, as simply "a white anthropologist from Kansas.". (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%). Men who grew up without fathers can be outstanding parents. Single fathers, on average, have higher incomes than single mothers and are far less likely to be living at or below the poverty line24% versus 43%. They don't give full custody to men. A Complete Timeline Of Kate Beckinsale And Pete Davidson's Relationship, The Greatest Actresses Who Have Never Won an Oscar (for Acting), American Public Figures Who Are National Treasures, The Greatest Actors & Actresses in Entertainment History, Actors Who Somehow Looked Older In The '90s Than They Do Now, Jon Stewart's Most Entertaining Feuds Ever, The Most Influential Contemporary Americans. Recently, Ms. McWilliams and I screened the film for teenagers at Williamsburg Charter High School in Brooklyn. Thomas Jefferson was raised by his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, after his father died when he was 14. As the title suggests, it focused mainly on the relationship he had with his father, Barack Obama Sr. And then it kind of faded out a bit. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. 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. This allows for a further differentiation of single fathersthose who have no spouse or partner living with them and those who are cohabiting.6. About two thirds are White, one third Black. When I asked why, her answer was straight to the point: Soon Mr. Sanford and other adults in the room were choking back tears. Single parent households in both the US and England have jumped from less than 10 percent in the 1970s to roughly 30 percent today. Nice to have you with us. I was 39 when I had my son, and I was just a month shy of 40. So I came to the conclusion that many people have come to that this is a classic conspiracy theory, and it feeds on information that may well be to the contrary but is all taken to be evidence of the conspiracy. Statistics have their place in our society, but at the same time, they are broad strokes and not based on an individual case. I can't come, you know, have his dad do something about it. 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. Colbert . But the characterizations of Obama's mother first as "a white anthropologist from Kansas" and then as "a single mother on food stamps" and "the woman who died of cancer while fighting with her insurance company at the end of her life" don't encompass who she was, the unconventional life she led or the influence she had on the future president of the United States, says writer Janny Scott. George Washington's mother, Mary, became a widow when he was 11. It was impossible not to question, in that moment, the stereotype to which she had been expediently reduced: the white woman from Kansas. Most notably, households headed by single fathers appear to be much better off financially when compared with those headed by single mothers. Some of their husbands are abusers. 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 And I just had to conclude, after all these attempts at getting play dates and failing, that we just weren't really welcome at their house. It's our bias against these family structures and not providing the necessary support for them. IN A PERFECT WORLD drops the labels and proves that with the right support, role models and love, any child can succeed. Research like this has kept some influential thinkers and journalists on the left defending the scientific consensus about marriage, fatherhood, and family. You know, if a - one of my clients, you know, gets kicked out of school for getting into a school fight and has to go to court, the judge blames the mom, says you're not putting in the family structure in place to keep your child well-behaved, and that kid usually gets adjudicated delinquent, is on probation for 12 months, gets into another fight, and they're stuck in the system. Of course he was referring to his favorite subject himself as if he'd blazed a new trail of opportunity. The number of single father households has increased about ninefold since 1960, from less than 300,000 to more than 2.6 million in 2011.1 In comparison, the number of single mother households increased more than fourfold during that time period, up to 8.6 million in 2011, from 1.9 million in 1960. This is the case for just 38% of single mothers and fully 59% of married fathers. Some couples don't have children at all. And during that time, everybody that I met said: Well, you'll never get full custody. She is currently working on a new book about the future of the family in America. The Catwoman star was then raised by her mother and had little contact with her father. CONAN: Rich Moran is of the Pew Research, and you can find a link to his survey and find a link to that poll at our website, at npr.org. They are also younger and less likely to be white. All the men in the film, including the directors son, adopted loving and supportive men to fill the role of their father. When it became more and more pressing in recent months, I went back and looked at everything I had ever gathered on that subject. During the pandemic, many single parents, myself included, have been hit the hardest by a decrease in income, the social isolation of stay-at-home orders, and the stress of juggling work and virtual school. Intentionally or not, the label obscures an extraordinary storyof a girl with a boy's name who grew up in the years before the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the Vietnam War, and the Pill; who married an African at a time when nearly two dozen states still had laws against interracial marriage; who, at age twenty-four, moved to Jakarta with her son in the waning days of an anti-communist bloodbath in which hundreds of thousands of Indonesians are believed to have been slaughtered; who lived more than half of her adult life in a place barely known to most Americans, in an ancient and complex culture, in a country with the largest Muslim population in the world; who spent years working in villages where an unmarried, Western woman was a rarity; who immersed herself in the study of a sacred craft long practiced exclusively by men; who, as a working and mostly single mother, brought up two biracial children; who adored her children and believed her son in particular had the potential to be great; who raised him to be, as he has put it jokingly, a combination of Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, and Harry Belafonte, then died at fifty-two, never knowing who or what he would become. Black children raised by single parents are three times more likely to . I mean, I think about it all the time. The nuclear family in the house across the street is still there, but different kinds of families live on the block, too: unmarried parents, gay parents, people who choose not to have children at all and, of course, single parents. You know, I'll answer him honestly. A growing share of lower-income children are raised by their mother but not their father, and research shows that those children are at a particular That often doesn't happen, and it doesn't mean that children who are raised by single mothers or in other arrangements somehow turn out inevitably wrong. Take An Interactive Quiz On Changing Family Structures. He summed up the proposed problem: income inequality has soared, stretching the gap between rich and poor, and a smaller share of Americans are making the climb. 3. I just think that the way that couples socialize tends to be with other couples. And, you know, every school that my child has been at has had both of our phone numbers. Email us, talk@npr.org. To describe Dunham as a white woman from Kansas is about as illuminating as describing her son as a politician who likes golf. For example, boys raised by a mother and stepfather (a two-parent home) have the highest negative outcomes, much more than those raised by a single mother. We're talking with Mary Pols, who's the author of "Accidentally On Purpose: The True Tale Of A Happy Single Mother." At any one time, about two thirds of single mothers are working outside the home, a slightly greater share than the share of married mothers who are also working outside the home. We live in an upper-middle-class economic, socioeconomic area. You know, I think the system, our laws, our schools, our judges, are prejudiced against single mothers. 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. During a discussion group after the screening, the teenagers shared their disappointment and anger toward their fathers. SHELLY: Of course. In terms of racial and ethnic composition, cohabiting single dads are much less likely to be white and much more likely to be Hispanic. His right hand rested on her shoulder, lightly. About half (52%) are separated, divorced, widowed or never married and are living without a cohabiting partner; some (41%) are living with a non-marital partner; and a small share (7%) are married but living apart from their spouse.3. How do people treat you? NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Mr. MORAN: Basically, we surveyed nearly 3,000 Americans, and we wanted to test what people really thought the consequences of some of the bigger demographic trends that have reshaped the American family in the last 30 or 40 years are. And you're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. Vicky Waltz. Of course, there is a wide array of single mothers. The history of the United States is filled with stories of single mothers raising successful men. The increase in single father households is likely due to a number of factors, most of which have also contributed to the increase in single mother households, and to the decline of two-married-parent households. Readmore, By the time children are in middle school, parents should be stepping back. In fact, juvenile delinquency and substance abuse are highest among children raised by parents in hostile marriages (two-parent homes). A new report from the Institute for Family Studies co-authored by us with sociologist Wendy Wang finds large differences between Black kids raised by their own two parents, compared to their peers raised by single parents (primarily single mothers). 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 Follow them on Twitter:@bradwilcoxIFSand@IanVRowe. Thomas Jefferson was. 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. ALAN: Well, single fathers run into some of the same things that I've been hearing on the show, that, you know, just the way that you can actually do that by yourself, you know, without a woman around, in your case with a single mom, without a man around and so forth. The statistical impacts of being raised by a single parent (like lower average scores on standardized tests, poorer grades and an increased likelihood of dropping out of high school or failing to attend college) may be stronger for sons, but they affect daughters too. ADEL: I find it true in Cub Scouts, as well. Single moms are not invited to dinner or barbecues with other families. Obama said yes, and in 1995, his book Dreams from My Father was published. Some of their husbands are in prison. He's now a freshman in college. than boys raised in single-parent households. The median income for families led by a single mother in 2020 was about $51,168, well below the $106,921 median for married couples. Unfortunately, his mother was left to raise him on her own before Clinton was even born. I want to break that cycle where a father is not at home where a father is not helping to raise that son or daughter. And I'll take the answer off the air. Catch up on any essays, posts and 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. 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. Causation is unclear, but correlation isnt: over all, men and boys are struggling in a changed environment. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any government agency. This is what makes the new documentary IN A PERFECT WORLD such an important and timely film. And millennials will make up 21% of the voting-eligible population in 2020. But they draw a line in the sand when it comes to single motherhood. Scott's biography of Obama's mother, A Singular Woman, traces Dunham's life and the relationship she had with her son, whose rise in the political world came largely after her death in 1995. Scott's biography of Obama's mother, A Singular Woman, traces Dunham's life and the relationship she had with her son, whose rise in the political world came largely after her death in 1995. "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. And we asked people did they think this was a good thing for society, a bad thing for society, or it really didn't make one difference one way or another. Sometimes research results are politically incorrect, or even offensive for some of us, and still worth talking about. You can join the conversation by going to our website. Biden and Harris openness about these family influences has also given power to a job that is often stigmatized by Republicans. The gospel of Jesus Christ was given by God to bless all His children, without exception, regardless of the family situations in which they find themselves. I met with bankers in glass towers in Jakarta where, nearly two decades before Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank shared the Nobel Peace Prize for their work with microcredit, Dunham worked on the largest self-sustaining commercial microfinance program in the world. Single fatherhood is generally more prevalent among younger, less educated, poorer and non-white fathers. CONAN: All right, Rich Moran, thanks very much for your time today, appreciate it. I'm currently in graduate school in Washington. I had to earn respect by proving that I could effectively raise my son on my own. So I think there was a theme and this is just snippets of little things I've stumbled upon that she had a kind of longing for a closer relationship with him. However, single father householders differ from single mother householders on several indicators. They rarely take into account men like Mr. Sanford who step up and changed childrens lives every day. In 1970, 31 percent of single-mother families were black, 68 percent were white, and 1 percent were "other race." In 2013, the figures were 30 percent black, 62 percent white, and 8 percent "other." Readers should bear in mind that the terms "unmarried . What if it had said, you know, are absentee fathers good for society or bad for society? And we'll start with Paige(ph), and Paige is on the line with us from Charlottesville in Virginia. But my best guess is that these attitudes are based on personal experiences and just what they see. Black boys are almost half as likely to end up incarcerated (14% for intact; 23% for single parent) and twice as likely to go on and graduate from college (21% for intact; 12% for single parent) if they are raised in a home with their two parents,compared to boys raised by just one parent. economists David H. Autor and Melanie Wasserman took a deep dive into the economic trends, research We see Ms. McWilliams pregnant and dancing with her babys father. One thing that we don't want to do is attempt to demonize single mothers or necessarily demonize the American public. PAIGE (Caller): Hi, thank you for taking my call. Well, how did you do that? The remaining 41% of single father household heads are living with a partner. That compassion doesnt come from a place of privilege, but rather one of internal resilience built from challenges. So I'll answer him. So at a certain point, she decided she wasn't serving his interests well by keeping him in Indonesia and in Indonesia schools.". What did you find inspirational about the interviews with men who grew up without fathers? There are some notable differences between single mothers and single fathers. Fathers who are living in a household headed by someone else are excluded from the analysis, as are fathers whose children are not living with them. While this family unit is the ideal, many Church members find themselves in a variety of other circumstances, including in single-parent families. Mr. MORAN: That's a good question. 5 Spiritual Practices That Increase Well-Being. Only 11% received cash benefits from TANF. 15. Today the number has dropped to 59 percent. CONAN: Mary Pols is a journalist who reviews books and movies for Time magazine, also a single mother. My reason was that I know how hard it is to be the sole economic and nurturing support and that our society does so little help. Consequently, an intensely negative parent relationship can do far more damage than a missing parent. They lack the paid-time-off-from-work entitlements that in comparison countries Ms. POLS: But - so I do think there is a - there's just - there is a problem. 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. Out of more than 10 million low-income working families with children, 39% were headed by single working mothers or about 4.1 million. Fatherless boys suffer from anger issues or depression. Someof the most influential people in the world wereeven raised by a strong single mother. CONAN: It's interesting. Staying Single: What Most People Do If They Divorce After 50, A Psychological Diagnosis for People Who Lie About Everything. Im aspiring to be anti-racist and patriotic. According to 2017 data, there are more than 16 million unmarried parents in America raising over 24million children. And for the last couple of years, his dad has been out of work. 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