1 In 4 US Children Raised By Single Parent

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a Paris-based public policy group, has released a report on family welfare which shows that 25.8 percent of US children are raised in a single family household, a number that is expected to increase by 8 percent by 2025 to 2030. This figure is the highest of any developed country in the world. Ireland was second (24.3 percent), followed by New Zealand (23.7 percent). Experts believe a variety of factors contributed to this trend, including a greater acceptance of single-parent families and having children out of wedlock, higher teenage pregnancy rates, economics, and lack of policies to help support families. The US lacks governmental policies, including childcare at work and national paid maternity leave, which are commonplace in other countries. US childhood poverty rates are also expected to climb from 20 percent to 23.5 percent in the coming years. However, the issue isn't so clear cut. Willem Adema, a senior economist at OECD, states that, "The financial strain causes all sorts of other strain, so ultimately it might contribute to family dissolution. At the same time, it might bring some families together. I suspect that the response differs across families.

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