The Myth Of The Absent Black Father

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By race, the percentage of white children living with their mother alone, who a) never married, b) are divorced, or c) are separated is about 17.4%

For black children that number is 47.7%.

And, the trend may be growing. The percentage of all children, whose mother never married her child's father (of any race) by the age of the child

age - % never married - % divorced/separated
under age 1 - 16.7% - 3.4%
1-2 - 15.5% - 5%
3-5 - 13.9% - 8.3%
6-8 - 12% - 10.2%
9-11 - 10% - 12.6%
12-14 - 10% - 14.3%
15-17 - 7.3% - 14.9%

data from the census, percentages from my calculator http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2012C.html

It is interesting that percentage of children living with two parents was steady at about 83% until about 1968 when it started dropping. What caused that?

This link has some historical data
http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p70-126.pdf