Fatherhood Rates By Race
National state county congressional district and city data.
Fatherhood rates by race. Best source for child and family well being indicators in the united states. That is over 18 million children who do not live with a father figure. Father involvement also varies by race and ethnicity with rates for africans american being higher and those for hispanics lower than the average american father danziger and radin 1990. Kids count data book.
In other words according to absent father statistics for many of our most intractable social ills affecting children father absence is to blame. The national non immigrant average is 42 percent and it was 30 percent. Regardless of their race children who grow up without dads especially boys are more likely to commit violent crime. The causal effects of father absence.
Annual review of sociology 39 399 427. Some of this may be explained by the diversity of ways that men approach fathering diversity that is evident even within these small groups. But see seltzer and bianchi 1988. 23 6 of us children 17 4 million lived in father absent homes in 2014.
King harris and heard 2004. Data by race sex by age. Both groups were also about twice as likely as all fathers of minor children to live with at least one parent. In 2002 nsfg began collecting data from national samples of men aged 15 44.
22 of solo dads and 24 of absent dads live with a parent s compared to only 10 of all fathers of minor children. According to the annie e. Fathers teach children different lessons than mothers do. Live in households with a mother alone.
Currently 55 1 of all black children 31 1 of all hispanic children and 20 7 of all white children are living in single parent homes. Collecting information on father involvement was a major. National health statistics reports n number 71 n december 20 2013 to birth and pregnancy rates and family formation and dissolution by interviewing national samples of women aged 15 44 16. Mclanahan s tach l schneider d.
Us census bureau 2015 living arrangements of children under 18 years and marital status of parents by age sex race and hispanic origin and selected characteristics of the child for all children. Casey foundation s website national kids count approximately 35 percent of children under 18 live in a single parent home as of 2016 as many as 25 percent of children in the u s. The national center for health statistics said that in 2015 77 3 percent of non immigrant black births were illegitimate.