Ali Akbar Mahzoun, director general of the Statistics Info and Immigration Bureau in the Iran Census Organization, said the number of single-mother families has reached 12% of all families in Iran.
“The number of single-mother families has reached 2.5 million,” he said. “The age of 31% of women in these families is below 50 and nearly 70% are above 50,” this government official added. (State-run Mehr news agency – October 19, 2015)