Family Facts: Social Science Research on Family, Society & Religion
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intact family provides children with many benefits, one of which is
increased protection against poverty A 1999 study estimated that by age seventeen one child in three will have been touched by poverty in America. Children in non-intact families were more likely to experience poverty than children in intact families: the risk of poverty for one-year-olds in non-intact families exceeded the risk children in intact families faced during their entire childhood. By age six, 68 percent of children in non-intact households had experienced at least one year of poverty, compared to 12 percent of children in intact families. By age seventeen, 81 percent of children in non-intact families had lived in poverty, compared to 22 percent of their peers in intact families. Read this finding The Heritage Foundation's familyfacts.org catalogs social science findings on the family, society and religion gleaned from peer-reviewed journals, books and government surveys. Serving policymakers, journalists, scholars and the general public, familyfacts.org makes social science research easily accessible to the non-specialist. |
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 Families with children living in poverty were more likely to have just one adult in the home...(more) Families with children living in poverty were more likely to have just one adult in the home...(more) Family Research Experts:
Pat Fagan William H. G. FitzGerald Research Fellow in Family and Cultural Issues Christine Kim Policy Analyst, Domestic Policy Studies Jennifer Marshall Director, Domestic Policy Studies For Interviews call Media Relations at (202) 675-1761 |
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Events:Religious Practice and Civic Life: What the Research Says October 4, 2007 |