Are single moms more common?

Single parents in the United States have become more common since the second half of the 20th century. In the United States, since the 1960s, there has been a increase in the number of children living with a single parent.

Are single parent children happier?

Children raised by a single parent are no less happy than those living with two biological parents, a study has found. Of the children living with a lone parent, 36 per cent said they were happy “all the time” while the remaining 64 per cent reported being happy “sometimes or never”.