The city attracts a higher percentage of female-headed households, primarly white, than other cities.

"You are, in effect diluting the influence of female-headed households."

We found that 26 percent of all female-headed households headed by women aged 18 to 64 were living below the poverty line.

And 40 percent of black and Hispanic female-headed households in this age group were living below the poverty line.

Children in female-headed households are much more likely to be poor.

Two-thirds of female-headed households with children - up from about half the year before.

The male or female-headed household is the primary residential unit.

The poverty rate for female-headed households was 34.3 percent - more than a third.

The poverty rate among female-headed households with children younger than 18 fell from 42.3 percent to 34.3 percent.

One in two will live in a single-parent, female-headed household.