In 1970, 10 percent of the nation's children lived in one-parent households; the figure has more than doubled since then.

He said most of the low-income housing tenants would be one-parent households with children, and "the history of those families in high rises is disastrous."

Mr. Edwards said he was sensitive to women's issues, had been raised by his mother in a one-parent household and resented discrimination against women.

Lots of kids grew up in one-parent households.

Researchers say that 60 percent of today's children will spend some time in a one-parent household before they leave home.

They were also products of a one-parent household, poor schooling, adverse peer-group pressure, and an economically depressed neighborhood.

At current levels this means over 50,000 one-parent households in a year.

Such figures for Hispanic children were not kept until 1980, when 20.5 percent of them lived in one-parent households.

Another group is written for parents to send to children in a time of two-income families, one-parent households and day care.

Of the children in one-parent households, 89 percent lived with their mothers and 11 percent with their fathers, the study found.