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Terry Schilling said the fatherlessness rate in the Black community is way too high, and CNN's Ashley Allison jumped in with "Whoa. I'll fact check that." On NewsNight Monday night, she claimed Black fathers are in the household "at a disproportionate higher rate than other fathers." Her evidence: "I had a father in my own home."
Here's what the numbers actually say:
In 2024, 63% of Black children lived in single-parent families. That's 5,519,000 kids. For non-Hispanic white children it was 23%, for Hispanic children 42%, and for Asian and Pacific Islander children 16%. (Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT, using Census Bureau data)
In 2024, 68.6% of births to Black mothers were to unmarried mothers, compared with 26.2% for white mothers. (CDC, Births: Final Data for 2024)
The CDC's own father-involvement report found 23.8% of Black men ages 15 to 44 lived apart from at least one of their children, compared with 8.2% of white men. (CDC, National Health Statistics Report No. 71)
One family's story isn't a fact check. Schilling was right, and the data isn't close.
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