Although single parents may not have the economic resources of married parents, they are still hitting the mark on what experts agree are beneficial parenting priorities: reading with their kids, having meals together and setting TV rules.
This data comes from a newly released Census Bureau report on indicators of children’s well-being, which was further analyzed by Sandra Hofferth for The Council on Contemporary Families, a nonpartisan nonprofit group.
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Hofferth’s conclusions would seem to bear out previous research. A 2014 study by Kimberly Howard and Richard Reeves of the Center on Children and Families used the Brookings Social Genome Model and other data to reach the conclusion that marriage does not necessarily change how one parents.
“The apparent ‘marriage effect’ may actually be an income effect,” they wrote.
