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Resource:http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=family-structure || Single parent households Resource: https://www.nycourts.gov/ip/parent-ed/pdf/ArticleSingleParents.pdf || Resource: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP11-13-FF.pdf || Single parent tips Recourse: http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/childrens-health/in-depth/single-parent/art-20046774 || Resource: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/familystability.htm || Single parent families in poverty Recourse: http://www3.uakron.edu/schulze/401/readings/singleparfam.htm || Resource: http://papers.ccpr.ucla.edu/papers/PWP-CCPR-2008-022/PWP-CCPR-2008-022.pdf || Father Absence Resource: http://apps.olin.wustl.edu/macarthur/working%20papers/wp-mclanahan2.htm || Resource: http://worldfamilymap.org/2013/articles/essay/two-one-or-no-parents || Non- Nuclear Families Resource: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/developmentalpsychologyblog/2013/05/raising-kids-in-non-nuclear-families/ || Both parents should assume equal responsibility in raising a child. Parent Responsibility
 * Two Parents || Single Parent ||
 * Family Structure
 * Child Well Being In A Two Parent family
 * Family stability
 * Are both parents better then one?
 * Two, one, or no parents?

Sixty four percent of children ages 0-17 lived with two married parents in 2012, down from seventy-seven percent in 1980. Having a two parent family should always be a choice. Up until the the sixties and seventies everyone stayed married. It is important because of family structure, family stability, and child's well- being in two parent families.

The portion of children living with both parents, has declined between 1970 and 1990, has fallen more slowly over the most recent two decades. They dropped modestly from sixty- nine percent in 2000 to sixty- four percent in 2013. Both the mother and father play an important role in the growth and development of children. The number and the type of parents (biological, step, etc.) in the household, as well as the relationship between the parents, are strongly linked to a child's well- being. Among young children, those living in single-parent households are less likely than children with two biological parents to exhibit behavioral self- control, and are more likely to be exposed to high levels of aggravated parenting, than are children living with two biological parents. But on the other hand children living with two married parents such as biological or adoptive parents have, in general, better health, greater access to health care, and fewer emotional or behavioral problems than children living in other types of families.

The advantage that children get from living in two-parent families may be due to family stability, more than the fact that their parents are married. A new study finds that children who are born and grow up in a stable single-parent homes do as well as children in married households. The key for many children is growing up in a stable household, where they don't go through divorce or other changes in the family, wether it is am single-parent home or a married home. But on the other hand there isn't no advantage for children living in two-parent homes. Sometimes it is better for a child to live in a stable single-parent home, then have an unstable household, or divorced parents.

Children living with their married biological parents exhibit better outcomes than children living with cohabiting biological parents or with their biological mother and a married or cohabiting social father. Recent research indicates that both marital status and biological parentage are integral to children's well-being. Children who live in social-father and cohabiting-parent families exhibit poor developmental outcomes, on average, than those who live with married biological parents. However high rates of divorce, non-marital fertility and multi-partnered fertility in the untied states have led to growing diversity and complexity in family arrangements. However the label 'two-parent family' once referred to families in which two married adults lived with their joint biological children. Today this label includes families with cohabiting biological parents and families with a married or cohabiting social parent, typically the father.

According to custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Support; 2009, a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau every two years there are approximately 13.7 million single parents and responsible for raising 22 million children. That's approximately twenty-six percent of children under 21 in the United States today. In 2012 twenty-four percent of children lived with only their mother, four percent lived with their father and four percent lived with neither. Also 7 in 10 children live with two parents about 2/3 live with two married parents, about 6 in 1 children live with both biological parents. So having a two-parent family should always be a choice, it helps the children to be more stable and every child needs to have a stable home and a good family structure and also needs to have a well-being family. Every child should need both parents in their lives.

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