Marriage is America's #1 weapon against childhood poverty. This graph details the impact of marriage on the probability of child poverty in Colorado.

1. In Colorado, Marriage Drops the Probability of Child
Poverty by 80 Percent
The rapid rise in out-of-wedlock PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN
child bearing is a major cause of THAT ARE POOR
high levels of child poverty in
35% 33.3%
Colorado.
Some 33.3 percent of single
30%
mothers children were poor in
2008 compared to 6.6 percent of
married couples with children. 25%
Single-parent families with
children are more than five times 20%
more likely to be poor than
families in which the parents are
15%
married.
The higher poverty rate among
10%
single-mother families is due both
6.6%
to the lower education levels of
the mothers and the lower income 5%
due to the absence of the father.
0%
Single Parent, Married,Two-Parent
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Female-Headed Families
Community Survey, 2006–2008 data. Families
Marriage and Poverty in the U.S. heritage.org