Single-parent households comprise 21 percent of all California households with children. Differences in education among the adults in these two kinds of households may account for some of this income gap. In 54 percent of single parent households the parent has a high school education or less, while only 14 percent are college graduates. Single parents are less likely to have health insurance, but, at the same time, are in poorer health than parents who are part of a couple. Only 61 percent of single parents report having any form of health insurance, of whom 35 percent receive health coverage from an employer or labor union.
Single parents are more likely to partake in risky health behaviors than parents in couples.
Twenty-one percent of single parents, but only 11 percent of parents in couples, had more than three drinks on the days they drank. All rights reserved. Please direct all comments and questions to the Daybreak Editor . Please contact the UCSF Web Developer for questions of a technical nature.