In Florida, Marriage Drops the Probability of Child Poverty

by 80 Percent
The rapid rise in out-of-wedlock PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN
child bearing is a major cause of THAT ARE POOR
high levels of child poverty in
35%
Florida. 32.2%
Some 32.2 percent of single
30%
mothers children were poor in
2008 compared to 6.3 percent of
married couples with children. 25%
Single-parent families with
children are more than five times 20%
more likely to be poor than
families in which the parents are
15%
married.
The higher poverty rate among
10%
single-mother families is due both
to the lower education levels of 6.3%
the mothers and the lower income 5%
due to the absence of the father.
0%
Single Parent, Married,Two-Parent
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Female-Headed Families
Community Survey, 2006–2008 data. Families

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