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Title: Living Arrangements of Children
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2001
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Abstract: Children live in a variety of family arrangements, some of which are complex, as a consequence of the marriage, divorce, and remarriage patterns of their parents. In addition, one-third of children today are born out-of-wedlock and may grow-up in single-parent families or spend significant portions of their lives with other relatives or stepparents. This report examines the diversity of childrens living arrangements in American households. The data are from the household relationship module of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), collected in the fall of 1996,and update a 1994 study that presented estimates from the 1991 SIPP panel of the number of children growing up in various family situations.1As in the earlier survey, detailed information was obtained on each persons relationship to every other person in the household, permit-ting the identification of many types of relatives, and parent-child and sibling relation-ships. This report describes family situations beyond the traditional nuclear family of parents and their children and includes discussions of extended family households with relatives and non relatives who may contribute substantially to a childs development and to the households economic well-being.
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Authors: Fields, Jason
Periodical (Full): Current Population Reports (U.S.Census Bureau, Washington DC)
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Volume: April
Pages: 70-74
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Housing and Segregation
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