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3.3 million dependent children
- 3.3 million dependent children live in a single parent family (1) 89% of single parent families are single mother families, 11% are single father families (1)
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Families with no children made up the largest proportion (43%) of families (8.3 million) in 2022. Families with one or more dependent children made up 42% of families (8.2 million),...
Apr 3, 2019 · 35.2% of households headed by someone with mixed ethnicity were made up of one person, and 19.9% were married couples or civil partners (the lowest percentage for this household type, out of all...
Nov 15, 2019 · Over the last decade the number of families with dependent children has increased by 4.1%, while the number of families with non-dependent children only has grown more than twice as fast. These...
There are estimated to be around 3.7 million one-child families in the United Kingdom as of 2023, with a further 3.38 million two-child families, and 1.18 million families that have three or...
Mar 5, 2024 · Three-quarters (76.1%, 402,000) of multi-generational family households contained dependent children; of those with dependent children, one-third (34.2%) were overcrowded compared with 10.0% of...
Mar 5, 2024 · Accredited official statistics. Children in Families in England and Wales: Census 2021. Headline release accompanying datasets on the characteristics of: dependent children, step-families,...
Sep 1, 2022 · There were about 8.2 million families with children in the UK in 2021, the study found. Advertisement. Sixty-three percent were married couples, 14% were co-habiting couples, and 23% lone-parent families (compared with an average 13% in Europe) . About 90% of lone-parent families were headed by women.