Growing numbers of men who have never been married — gay and straight — are shattering that old stereotype of the befuddled dad struggling with how to care for a baby.

There are now more than 1 million single fathers raising children in the U.S., according to 2010 figures from the Williams Institute at UCLA.

The 2010 Census found that in 2.2 million households, fathers raised their children without a mother. That’s about one household in 45. And the number of single-father households rose 62 percent in 10 years.
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