id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1629 Family structure in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 4176 518 61 Over time, the structure has had to adapt to very influential changes, including divorce and the introduction of single-parent families, teenage pregnancy and unwed mothers, and same-sex marriage, and increased interest in adoption. Nationally, 66% of female same-sex couples and 44% of male same-sex couples live with children under eighteen years old.[24] In the 2000 United States Census, there were 594,000 households that claimed to be headed by same-sex couples, with 72% of those having children.[27] In July 2004, the American Psychological Association concluded that "Overall results of research suggests that the development, adjustment, and well-being of children with lesbian and gay and bisexual parents do not differ markedly from that of children with heterosexual parents."[28] The family structure of African-Americans has long been a matter of national public policy interest.[32] The 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, known as The Moynihan Report, examined the link between black poverty and family structure.[32] It hypothesized that the destruction of the Black nuclear family structure would hinder further progress toward economic and political equality.[32] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1629.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1629.txt