308.7 million people

New York continued to be the nation’s most populous city by a large margin, with 8.2 million residents in 2011, followed by Los Angeles and Chicago. The 15 most populous cities remained unchanged since the 2010 Census. However, Austin, Texas, moved up from 14th to 13th in total population, supplanting San Francisco.

2. Continuing Metropolitanization

Rank	1950	2010
	MSA name	MSA name
1	New York—Northeastern NJ	New York, NY (CSA)
2	Chicago, IL	Los Angeles, CA (CSA)
3	Los Angeles, CA	Chicago, IL (CSA)

Global population rose to 6.9 billion in 2010, with nearly all of that growth in the world’s developing countries. In contrast, the world’s developed countries, totaling 1.2 billion people, saw their populations continue to age as the numbers of those of working age dwindle.

Among solo parents, 42% are white and 28% are black, compared with 55% of cohabiting parents who are white and 13% who are black. These gaps are driven largely by racial differences among the large share of solo parents who are mothers. Solo moms are more than twice as likely to be black as cohabiting moms (30% vs.

Although many people assume that moms have more child custody rights than dads, the truth is, U.S. custody laws don’t give mothers an edge in custody proceedings. However, the fact is that no custody laws in the U.S. give mothers a preference or additional rights to custody of their children.

In 2011, it was reported that 72% of black babies were born to unmarried mothers. As of 2015, at 77.3 percent, black Americans have the highest rate of non-marital births among native Americans.

Data Type All

Location	Race	2019
United States	Non-Hispanic White	8,479,000
United States		24%
United States	Two or more races	1,923,000
United States		40%

20.2%

In 2017, American Samoa had a poverty rate of 65% — the highest poverty rate of any state or territory in the United States.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 19.5 million children, more than 1 in 4, live without a father in the home. Source: U.S. Census Bureau. (2018). Living arrangements of children under 18 years old: 1960 to present.

Moreover, father-absent girls display a host of outcomes often experienced by early developing girls – including increased sexual promiscuity, higher rates of teen pregnancy, earlier first sexual intercourse and reproduction, and difficulty forming stable long-term relationships – with the most pronounced effects being …

Researchers found that maltreatment was lowest among children who lived with two biological parents. Maltreatment was most common in homes with a stepfather or boyfriend, with 80% of the maltreatment occurring between birth and age 4, 20% between ages 4-6, and 27% between ages 6-8.

A vast majority of Asian children (85%) today live with two married parents, as is the case for most white children (74%) and Hispanic children (61%). The share among black children who live with married parents is markedly lower—36% of black children live with married parents.

At least one parent was employed in 91.3 percent of families with children, an increase of 0.5 percentage point from the previous year. Among married-couple families with children, 97.5 percent had at least one employed parent in 2019, and 64.2 percent had both parents employed.

Emotional abuse

largest proportion of victims; almost 29 percent of the victims are between the ages 0- 3 and over one half of all victims are 7 years of age or younger.

Studies also now indicate that about one-third of people who are abused in childhood will become abusers themselves. This is a lower percentage than many experts had expected, but obviously poses a major social challenge.

By becoming an abuser, someone who has been abused can play the role of the more powerful person in the relationship in an attempt to overcome the powerlessness they felt when they were being abused.

The overall rate of having been a victim was 35% for perpetrators and 11% for non-perpetrators. Of the 96 females, 43% had been victims but only one was a perpetrator. Having been a victim was a strong predictor of becoming a perpetrator, as was an index of parental loss in childhood.

Abusive people believe they have the right to control and restrict their partner’s lives, often either because they believe their own feelings and needs should be the priority in the relationship, or because they enjoy exerting the power that such abuse gives them.

Red flags and warning signs of an abuser include but are not limited to:

• Extreme jealousy.
• Possessiveness.
• Unpredictability.
• A bad temper.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Verbal abuse.
• Extremely controlling behavior.
• Antiquated beliefs about roles of women and men in relationships.

The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS): 2010 Summary Report. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Women ages 18 to 24 and 25 to 34 generally experience the highest rates of intimate partner violence.

An abuser could be anyone. It can be someone you know or someone you work with. It could be staff who care for you, like the nurse or care assistant in your home. It could be your family or friends.

More than half (57%) of women who were survivors of child abuse experienced domestic abuse as an adult, compared with 41% of men. Overall, women were five times more likely to suffer sexual assault as an adult than men (20% compared with 4%), and twice as likely to experience domestic abuse (26% compared with 14%).

An omission is a failure to act, which generally attracts different legal consequences from positive conduct. In the criminal law, an omission will constitute an actus reus and give rise to liability only when the law imposes a duty to act and the defendant is in breach of that duty.