In the article "Single Parent Families", he states; the United States has the highest percentage of single-parent families (34% in 1998) among developed countries, followed by Canada (22%), Australia (20%), and Denmark (19%). In developing countries, divorce is not as common, but abandonment, death, and imprisonment produce single-parent families, headed primarily by women (Kinnear 1999). A quarter to a third of all families are headed by a single mother. The low percentage of single parents is 5% in Kuwait, up to a maximum of over 40% in Botswana and Barbados. In countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, more than 25% of households are headed by women. In 1996, more than a quarter of children in the United States lived with a single parent, double the rate in 1970. About 84 percent of these families are headed by women. The result of single parenthood is due to divorced, never married, widowed or death. There is racial variation in the percentage of families headed by a single parent: 22% for whites, 57% for blacks, and 33% for Hispanic families. According to the