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Single Dads Less Likely to Have Health Insurance

Single-father households are less likely to have health insurance than other types of families with children, a U.S. Census Bureau survey finds.

The new results from 2001 data are surprising, since single-mother families have a median income of $22,000, which is some $10,000 less than single-father households, reports the Associated Press.

In households with one child, about 20 percent of the 1.5 million single-father American families lack insurance, compared with 17 percent of 4.5 million single-mother families and 10 percent of the 10.3 million married couple homes with comparable incomes, the survey finds. The results are similar in households with more than one child.

The 2000 Census finds that the number of single-dad families rose 62 percent in the prior decade to 2.2 million, the AP reports.

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-- Scott Roberts

Last updated 8/26/2003.

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