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Title: What about These Children? Assessing Poverty Among the Hidden Population of Multiracial Children in Single-Mother Families

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: Capturing the conditions of children of color living in single-parent families has become more complex due to the growing presence of interracial households. This analysisassesses the size and poverty status of single-female headed families housing multiracial children. Using data from the 2000 Census, we find that 9 percent of female-headedfamilies house either children who are classified with more than one race or are classified as a single race different than their mothers compared to only 3 percent of marriedcouple families. Logistic regression analyses assessing the odds of poverty status for families finds that being a multiracial family does not constitute a uniform advantage ordisadvantage for female headed households. Rather, these families, like most families of color, are more likely to experience poverty than white monoracial families. The twoexceptions are White multiracial families who are more likely to be in poverty relative to this reference group and Asian multiracial families who have similar poverty rates aswhite monoracial families (and a lower rate than Asian monoracial families).

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Authors: Bratter, Jenifer; Damaske, Sarah

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Publication Number: DP 2010-09

Institution: University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research,

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Poverty and Welfare

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