More than half of the households in parts of the District of Columbia County and Prince George is executed by parents, a home life that experts say that increases chances your children to follow the same steps.
The section of DC through the Anacostia River is home to the largest percentage of single-parent families, with 65% of households run by women and men executed by 9 percent. The remaining one-quarter of the family about 32000 families are performed by married couples, according to the American Community Survey of the census.
A household is one in which the head of the House is caring for another family member or adopted member. Experts say that in most cases that family member is a child.
Other areas where more than half of families is performed by single parents include the rest of Southeast d.c. and most of the Northeast d.c. and areas in Prince George near the Capital Beltway. In Langley Park, single parent families really outweigh single-mother families at a ratio of 4-3.
These areas have a high population of minorities, particularly among blacks and Hispanics, is not a coincidence, said Ron Haskins, researcher at the Brookings Institution.
"About 70 percent of black children are born outside of marriage, and then you have those born within marriage, about half of them end in divorce," he said. "And first-generation Hispanics have a relatively low rate of divorce ... but once you get into second generation that disappears."
Haskins said that many factors contribute to the high concentration of single parent families among minority groups, but "the bottom line is I don't think anyone really understands why."
Children who grow up with one of the fathers are more likely to repeat that pattern as adults, "he said. But it doesn't always get that way – in fact, a recent study Haskins is co-author shows that most children are born into families with both parents present.
"But as time passes [parents] are more likely to break," said Haskins. "They gradually lose contact with the father ... and it is the transitions and the whole agitation associated with the transition that really has an impact on the child".
While children tend to fare a little better with the mother than with the father, Haskins said the distinction is difficult to do because the way most parents take their children struggling to custody in what is usually a nasty divorce.
Dads in Rockville well-to-do did a very high pace. More than half of the children of Bethesda living with both parents, but the remaining 30 percent live with their parents, while 13 percent live with their mothers.
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