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A quarter of US parents are unmarried – and that changes how much they invest in their kids

  • Written by Orestes 'Pat' Hastings, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University
Unmarried parents spend, on average, several hundred dollars less on each child annually.fizkes/Shutterstock.com

Family structure in America is sharply divided by class and race.

While 84% of children whose mothers have a bachelor’s degree or higher-level education live with married parents, only 58% of children whose mothers have a high...

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