The Decline In Nuclear Families

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families' resources, often taking up the bulk of salaries and leaving too little money for other necessities. Nationally, 58 percent of low-income households with children have housing costs that exceed the recommended threshold of 30 percent of the family's income.
Other trends go hand-in-hand with children raised in single-family homes. Adult children of divorced single mothers are less likely than children from two-biological-parent families to complete high school and attend or graduate from college; they also have lower-status occupations and a significantly decreased level of psychological well-being. While inner-city boys as early as second grade aspire to much less for careers than their peers from more affluent areas, the ones with highest aspirations are those living with their biological fathers. Adults whose parents had separated prior to them reaching age 16 are more likely to suffer socioeconomic decline, to experience sexual problems, and to attempt suicide. ...

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