Stats & Facts

The average income for a single-mother family working full-time is $40,000 a year, lower than the average income for a single-father family or a two-parent family. Single moms also often find it difficult to work long hours, since they must also care for their children.
In 2023, there were 7.3 million single mothers in the United States.
Single motherhood has increased rapidly in recent years.
Nearly 4 of out 10 children were born to unwed mothers.
1 in 5 children under 18 years of age, are being raised without a father.
Poverty rate for single-mothers in 2023 was 32.2%.
31.6% of Native American female-led families lived in poverty.
28.4% of Black female-led families lived in poverty.
27.6% of Hispanic female-led families lived in poverty.
19.3% of White female-led families lived in poverty.
49.8% of families led by single-mothers were food insecure.

Nationally, infant care costs averaged of 40% of the income for a single mother and 30% for school grade children.
Child care subsidies are difficult to obtain with waiting lists, frozen assistance programs and years long waiting times.

They lack the time, funds, and support to obtain the additional education necessary to secure a better job.
They confront the ever-present dilemma of finding quality, affordable child care.
They lack the formal safety net to guard against an economic shock, leaving them one accident or illness away from losing everything.

A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. Psalm 68:5
Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. Exodus 22:22-23
Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. Isaiah 1:17
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other. Zechariah 7:10