Family Facts: Social Science Research on Family, Society & Religion

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This finding looks at the relationship between family structure and child poverty.

In 1998, 8.2 percent of married couples, 16 percent of cohabiting couples, 24.2 percent of single-parent households with more than one adult, and 38.1 percent of single-parent households with no other adults lived in poverty. Differences in the poverty rate between married-couple households and other households were more pronounced among African-American and Hispanic households than among white households.

Sample or Data Description
Data came from the 1998 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a nationally representative survey. The analytic sample consisted of households with children (N = 10,601).

Source
"How Do Marriage, Cohabitation, and Single Parenthood Affect the Material Hardships of Families With Children?"
Lerman, R. I.
The Urban Institute: Washington DC Vol. Retrieved January 10, 2007, from http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/410539_SippPaper.pdf, Number . , 2002. Page(s) NA.

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