The Changing American Family

18       Next come the single-parent households. Divorce rates may be leveling out in this country, depending upon how they are measured, but broken nuclear households are so widespread that today as many as one out of seven children are raised by a single parent.. In big cities that may nm as high as one in four.

19           In many countries at once, the single-parent household is becoming a key family form. Sweden gives one-parent households first crack at nursery⁷and day­care facilities. Germany is building special blocks of apartments for them.