It takes just a few data points to portray the dissolution of too many American families today. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other resources:

• In 1968, 42% of households were nuclear families (two parents plus one or more children under the age of 18). In 2018, that number had decreased to 22%.
• There were approximately 332 million residents in the USA in 2018, so around 73 million people were part of a nuclear family at that time.
• Currently, 40.4% of all births are to unmarried women.
• In 2021, approximately 7.21 million families were led by a single man with no spouse.
• As of 2022, approximately 60,000 minor children were being raised by a widowed parent.
• After no significant change between 2001 and 2007, the suicide rate among young people ages 10‒24 increased 62% from 2007 through 2021.
• The homicide rate among young people ages 10-24 increased 60% from 2014 through 2021, after no significant changes between 2001 and 2006.
• 15% of high school students reported having ever used select illicit or injection drugs (i.e. cocaine, inhalants, heroin, methamphetamines, hallucinogens, or ecstasy) and 14% of students reported misusing prescription opioids.
• 25% of women and 11% of men will experience domestic violence   in their lifetimes.
• Roughly 1 in 100 children in the U.S. have their parents' rights terminated by age 18.
• Recent and comprehensive Florida specific data can be accessed here.

Florida Statute 61.13(3) provides in pertinent part that its family court judges consider the following factors in making custody determinations: