With More Single Fathers, a Changing Family Picture

Doing some comparative math in the weeks before Father’s Day, Matthew Weinshenker, an assistant professor of sociology at Fordham University, has calculated that the number of single-father families in the United States has jumped 27 percent in the past decade. Since 1990, it has nearly doubled — to 2.79 million from 1.5 million. That is still only 15 percent of all single parents, but the increase, Dr. Weinshenker says, shows that the picture of American families is changing.

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