parents

How many parents (of children under 18) are there in the USA? And if you can, how many parents are there with kids who are between 5 and 14?

Do you have kids, AP?

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: AP can’t find these figures in standard sources. Since this seems the sort of thing of interest to marketers, I recommend that you contact the fine folks at the Ford Library of the Fuqua School of Business. For a ballpark idea (no age breakdown), according to Table A-7 of the Census Bureau report “Examining American Household Composition: 1990 and 2000” — http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/censr-24.pdf — in 2000 there were 32,967,528 “partner households” with “children in household.” (This is further divided between spouse and unmarried partners.) I guess multiply that by 2 to get the total number of persons in a partnership, or 65,935,056. Then, there were 12,178,781 “nonpartner households” with “children in household.” That sounds like single-parent families. The sum is 78,113,837, although some of these children might well be 40 years old! Still, I’m guessing this might be an approximation of the “children under 18” category.

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