Persistent social and economic discrimination has produced a social environment that has produced space for the existence of many different family structures, of which, single households remain the highest within the African American community. Coupled with fewer marriage opportunities, single motherhood becomes more normalized and hence, single parents feel less pressure to marry, and children born into single households normalize those experiences as well. Studies have found that men are less likely to marry women with children from another relationship, and that single mothers are less likely to marry men who are not economically self-sufficient. Although 80% of unwed parents express a desire to marry, only 15% of those households do get married to the parent partner. As having children is a natural stressor as children are demanding, unwed couples who do have children outside of marriage tend to stay unmarried as the natural stressor of having children decreases relationship satisfaction as it does in most all relationships in general.