Women and children account for over 70 percent of the nation's poor and the official poverty rate for single mother families has been exceptionally high every year since official poverty measurement began in the 1960's.

In this report, Legal Momentum finds that single mothers suffer disproportionately high rates of poverty under four alternative income definitions.

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Single Mother Poverty Rates Remain Exceptionally High Even When Food Stamps and Earned Income Credits Are Counted

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In studies of battered women, many experience sexual abuse as well as physical violence, and forced sex is a leading indicator of increasing danger and potential lethality.

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