Christian Family Services Ministry

4-27-2016 – A Word to the Wise: The effects of single motherhood are consistent across different race and ethnic groups and across different social classes. They are similar for boys and girls and for children who live apart from a parent in early childhood, as well as for those who live apart in late childhood. In most instances, remarriage does not diminish the negative consequences associated with single parenthood; in fact, remarriage may worsen the problem. Children who live with a mother and stepfather or a mother and her partner do just as poorly in school and are just as likely to become teen mothers or spend time in jail as children who live with a single mother alone.