Single mother households are not the problem

Don’t let the statistics fool you

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The U.S. Census Bureau has recorded that out of 11 million single parent families with children under 18, nearly 80 percent were headed by single mothers in 2022.

According to the statistics, 51.4% of single mothers have never married, 29.3% are divorced, and 19.2% are either separated or widowed.

Around two thirds of these statistics are White, one third Black.

Though the majority of single mothers are white, it’s no secret single black mothers catch a majority of the heat for societies downfall.

With each news article of young black men committing crime, to videos of teenagers fighting teachers to car jackings, the unanimous presumption is that they must come from a single mother household that has failed them.

In some cases these presumptions are right. A lot of wayward children and adults do come from single parent households. But the onus, shouldn’t be on one group.

It should be on us all.

We don’t have a single parent problem. We don’t have a single mother problem. We have a human problem.

Before we become parents we are humans first.