The more likely gender to suffer from poverty at a young age.
What are women?
100
By leaving this, women limit their future earning possibilities.
What is school?
100
Children become this when led by an unmarried mother on welfare.
What is dependent?
100
The three types of women who can be categorized as unmarried mothers.
What are divorced mothers, never-married mothers, and widowed mothers?
200
This state has a poverty rate of 21.4%, the highest in the nation.
What is Mississippi?
200
What women lack and therefore have limited job choices
What are job skills?
200
A child's __ of __ goes down when their only parent is an unmarried mother.
What is quality of life?
200
In 2011, the average annual cost of full-time care for a(n) ___ in a ___ ranged from $4,591 in Mississippi to $20,178 in Washington, DC.
What is an infant at a daycare center?
300
The amount of cents a woman makes against each dollar a man makes at the same job.
How much is (approx.) 70 cents?
300
What burdens unmarried mothers' paychecks the most.
What are children?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
The percent reduction of a divorced mother's quality of life.
What is 73%?
300
Even though a great percentage of unmarried mothers work 80 hours a week, they still fall below the poverty line because the United States has too many ___.
What are low-wage jobs?
400
The average amount of years women spend in the workforce LESS THAN men do.
How much is 12 years?
400
This region of the United States is more likely to have unmarried mothers in poverty.
What are the Southern states?
400
Children with unmarried mothers are more likely to develop ___ problems later in life.
What are psychological problems?
400
The amount of change the ex-husband experiences after divorce in terms of quality of life.
What is an increase of 42%?
500
The average increase in standard of living for ex-husbands.
What is 47 percent?
500
According to a United States 2013 census, this many single-mother families are living in poverty.