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Number of U.S. children living in a single parent family 1970-2016

Number of children living with a single mother or a single father in the U.S. from 1970 to 2016 (in 1,000)

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Year	Mother only	Father only
1970	7,452	748
1975	10,231	1,014
1980	11,406	1,060
1985	13,081	1,554
1990	13,874	1,993
1995	16,477	2,461
2000	16,162	3,058
2005	17,225	3,497
2010	17,283	2,572
2012	17,991	2,924
2013	17,532	2,999
2014	17,410	2,848
2015	17,006	2,751
2016	17,223	3,006

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This statistic shows the number of children living with a single mother or single father from 1970 to 2016. In 2016, about 20.23 million children in the United States lived with one parent, approximately 17.22 million of them with their mother only.

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