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Title: Family Structure and Children's Economic Well-Being: Incorporating Same-Sex Cohabiting Mother Families

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: Research on family structure and child well-being rarely includes children in same sex parent families, a notable omission since 28% of lesbian couple households contain children. Using the 2010-2013 pooled Current Population Survey, we examined children's economic well-being by family structure. These data were ideal for this study because they included a sizable number of children in same-sex cohabiting families and the CPS measured both official and supplemental poverty, incorporating the cohabiting partner. Using the official poverty measure, children in cohabiting mother families were more likely to be poor than their counterparts in either the other cohabiting (two biological parent or stepparent) or married parent families. Yet, using the supplemental poverty measure, these children were no longer worse off and did not differ from children in different-sex two parent families, indicating that partner contribution vary considerable by family structure.

Url: http://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/college-of-arts-and-sciences/NCFMR/documents/WP/WP-14-01.pdf

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Authors: Brown, Susan L.; Manning, Wendy D.; Payne, Krista K.

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Publication Number: 14-01

Institution: Bowling Green State Univeristy

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Publisher Location: Bowling Green, Ohio

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Family and Marriage, Other

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