[hjadal]

I think they misinterpreted the statictics which they linked. According to a https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/single-parent-day.ht... it is 23%, assuming that the share between boys and girls is the same, which is still a lot but not 40%.

[rank0]

Yeah that's pretty rough at 23%. But still, I think it'd be a stretch to infer that all those children are being raised by one person. Many parents are divorced, but still actively participate in raising their child.

Further, some of those 23% are bound to be temporary situations. My initial gut reaction to your link just says "whenever this census was conducted 23% of minors had only one adult in the house."

Not trying to downplay the issue of single motherhood, but the statistics available just seem fuzzy.