The chart below summarizes 2011 Census Bureau data compiled by Kids Count, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The group defined "children in single-parent families" as kids under 18 who live with their own single parent; it includes children living with a parent and a cohabiting adult, but it does not include children living with married step-parents.


Racial or ethnic group
Children in single-parent families
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
17 percent
Non-Hispanic whites
25 percent
Hispanics
42 percent
American Indian and Native Alaskans
53 percent
Non-Hispanic blacks
67 percent