American family finances have weathered the fallout of the dot-com bubble, the Great Recession and a pandemic over the last 30 years. Despite these challenges and more, single-parent households as ...

Readers react to a guest essay arguing that the growing number of such households is bad for the children. To the Editor: Re “The Rise of Single-Parent Families Is Bad for Kids,” by Melissa S ...

The author (not pictured) enjoys being a single mom. StockPlanets/Getty Images 2025-04-28T21:58:26Z Share ... While I always dreamed of a two-parent household for my family, ...