A majority of men (59%) say single motherhood is bad for society, compared with 37% of women. Gender is strongly related to perspectives on single women raising children alone. The sample size for Asian adults in 2018 was not large enough to analyze separately. Among Black and Hispanic adults, the shares saying single women raising children on their own is bad for society didn’t change significantly from 2018. Since 2018, White adults have had the largest increase in the share saying this is bad for society – up 8 points from 41%. About half of White and Asian adults (49% each) say single women raising children alone is bad for society, compared with a smaller share of Hispanic adults (39%). Views on single motherhood differ somewhat by race and ethnicity. In 2020, that share was 41%, about double the percentage from 40 years ago. The share of births to unmarried women has remained relatively stable over the past decade, after increasing steadily from 1980 to around 2009. A smaller share (43%) says it doesn’t make a difference, and just 10% of adults say it is good for society. adults say single women raising children on their own is generally a bad thing for society, an increase of 7 percentage points from the 40% who said the same in a 2018 Center survey.
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