The two-parent family is traditionally seen as the best way to raise children. In the past, single -parent families have had to deal with the stigma attached to their life choices. Nowadays, however, the single-parent family is the fastest growing type of family. Single parenthood can be the result of death, divorce, or separation, but it can also result from single-parent adoption or women having children on their own thanks to fertility treatments. In the United States, a national survey showed that at least 50 percent of children, at some point in their childhood, will be members of single-parent home.