OTHER FINDINGS˜ Family life in America

About 17 percent of all children, and 57 percent of black children, lived with an unmarried parent in 1996, some of whom were cohabitating with another adult.
About 71 percent of children lived in any type of two-parent household, 25 percent lived in single-parent households, and 4 percent in households with some other adult, such as a grandparent.
Less than 1 percent (5.2 million) were living with one biological parent and either a stepparent or adoptive parent.
About 21 percent (15.3 million) had no brothers or sisters present in the house. Among the 79 percent with siblings, about 11 percent shared one biological parent but not the other.