Christian Family Services Ministry

10-14-2016 – A Word to the Wise: It seems that, as a society, we have lost a sense of propriety about cohabiting and its long-term effects. Sara McLanahan, a long-time researcher in this field attempts to awaken the public when she says: “To get an idea of the magnitude of the effects of single motherhood, consider the following: During the 1980s, the high school dropout rate was approximately 18 percent for all children in the U.S., 13 percent for children in two-parent families, and 26 percent for children in single-mother families. The statistics show that living with a single parent increases the risk of dropping out of school by a factor of two, a nontrivial effect.”