There’s a large gap in child poverty rates between single-mother families and single-father families. Since 1974, child poverty rates among single-mother families has often rested above 35%, whereas the latter has consistently been under 25%.
But a research brief from Xiaoyan Zhang at the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion in Syracuse shows that single mother family child poverty has been declining since 2014. Zhang used census data to plot and examine this trend as a part of her broader research in social determinants of health.
