The numbers are significantly high. Here’s a few statistics to increase your understanding of the situation.

• Women are 35% more likely to experience poverty than men.
• 36% of food insecure mothers skip meals due to financial reasons.
• According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), approximately 16.6% of households with children experience food insecurity. Families that include children and a married couple experience food insecurity to a lesser, though significant, extent (10.2%) while single mother households experience food insecurity at almost three times the rate (30.3%). These statistics point to the difficulty that many mothers face in providing meals for their families. 
• “single-mother households were more than three times as likely to experience food insecurity among children than married-couple households with children.”
• In 2020, the poverty rate for households headed by single mothers was 23%
• 1 in 4 households with children headed by single mothers experienced food insecurity in 2021, compared to 1 in 10 married-couple households with children. This disparity is even more pronounced among Black and Hispanic single mothers, who are nearly twice as likely to experience food insecurity as their White counterparts.
• Moms are more likely to skip meals so their children have enough food, raising their likelihood of illness, obesity, stress, depression and workplace absences. Parents, especially moms, lose productivity in the workplace when they forgo eating as a coping strategy in response to food insecurity.
• Children in households headed by single women are disproportionally affected by food insecurity; approximately half of all households with food insecure children are headed by single women.