Study: Single Moms Suffer From Poor Health Later in Life: As if being a single mom wasn't tough enough, a recent study suggests that it can actually be bad for your health. Researchers at Ohio State University studied nearly 4,000 mothers over a 30-year span (1979-2008) and found that the women who had children when they were single reported being less healthy when they reached their 40s, compared with women who raised their children with the children's father.
The study also found that getting married after having children out of wedlock did not help a woman's health unless she married the biological father, remained married to him and was white or Hispanic. Black women had no improvement in health when they married after having a child out of wedlock.
