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   (1) An increasingly large percentage of children in this state live in single parent households;

   (2) Almost one-half ( 1/2) of single parent households have income below the poverty level;

   (3) In excess of forty thousand (40,000) children in the state are receiving state aid through the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program;

   (4) Children in families where parents are separated or divorced are at greater risk of economic deprivation than in two (2) parent families.