Non-Resident Father's Day

If the nuclear family is on the upswing, as bits of Census data suggest, there’s still lots of fallout from its earlier implosion.A report from the University of Michigan spotlights one aspect of this: “About half of U.S. fathers who don’t live with their biological children also have family ties to another set of children, and 24 percent have three or more groups of children in their lives.” This latter cohort includes 8 percent who have “two or more sets of biological children who are not living with them.”