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America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
Of the 72 million fathers in the United States, 66 million either have been or are currently married, according to the first U.S. Census Bureau report to provide a detailed demographic profile of fatherhood.
The Men’s Fertility report shows that only 6 million fathers have never married.
Nearly 3 in 4 fathers are currently married (73.4 percent), 12.9 percent of fathers are divorced, 3.2 percent are widowed, and 2.3 percent are separated. The remaining 8.2 percent of fathers have never been married.
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