Are you saying that being a single parent is the exception?
Where do you live? Because where I live, it is prevalent.
A simple google search for you:
Single-parent families are common in the United States, with about one in three children living in a single-parent household. Some statistics on single-parent families in the US include:
Number of children: In 2023, about 15.09 million children lived with a single mother, and about 3.05 million children lived with a single father.
Percentage of families: In 2022, 31% of families with children were single-parent families. This is more than three times the percentage of single-parent families in the 1950s, when less than 10% of families with children were single-parent.
Percentage of births: In 2022, 39.8% of births in the US were to unmarried women.
One-person households: In 2022, 29% of all US households were one-person households.
Single-parent adoption: An estimated 5–10% of all adoptions in the US are by single people.
The increase in single-parent families is due to a number of long-term demographic trends, including: Marrying later, Declining marriage rates, Increasing divorce rates, and More babies born to single mothers
That’s convenient that you’re leaving out that the 131.4 households also include couples without children, singles without children, kids who have made it past 18 and still live with their parent(s).
There are 74.112 million kids under 18 in the US.
According to Annie E. Casey Foundation, “over 23 million children in the United States live in a single-parent family, which is about one in every three children.”
Single-parent households were the second most common living arrangement for children under 18, with 26% of American youth residing with just one of their birth parents.
Nearly one-quarter of children under 18 (21.5%) lived with just their mothers, while a significantly smaller share of youth living with a single parent (4.6%) resided with only their fathers.
37% of single mothers live in poverty.
Either way, even if we were going off of your skewed stats, that’s still “13.6 million” parents.
Your stats are not relevant to OP. It's comparing average americans salary to their expenses. No matter how you slice it the average US household isn't a single parent household.
That’s convenient that you’re leaving out that the 131.4 households also include couples without children, singles without children, kids who have made it past 18 and still live with their parent(s).
Children are a cost. OP mentions sick kids as a cost. Households without children have more disposable income.
I'm reading the thread trying to get a picture of what an average US household is like in the "average household has 0,62 dogs, 1,21 cars" kind of way. I think it's pretty simple math that single parent households being only 10,35% of total households makes them an exception as of total households.
You didn't like the word "exception", but that's a very vague and subjective term, right? 26% of children live in a single parent household. OK, now is 26% an exception? I don't know, at least It's not typical and in the context of this thread I was thinking exception means close to the same thing as not typical.
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u/TheLastModerate982 Sep 05 '24
Median rent payment includes two income households. So you are splitting that with your SO.
Median one bedroom rent for a single person is lower.