A recent report by the Census Bureau shows emerging trends in the living conditions of children.
According to a Feb. 3 press release from the Bureau, most of the children living with two parents lived with married parents. However, the analysis also found that children housed with two unmarried parents were more likely to be living in poverty than children with two married parents in the home.
"The surveys used in this report differ in their data-collection methods, universes, editing, and weighting," the Bureau advised in the release. "More information about the surveys is available in the Source of the Data and Accuracy of the Estimates sections of the report."
The Bureau further discovered that just over 70% of minors live in a household with two parents, while nearly a quarter live with just their mother and less than 5% live with only their mother.
Ties between familial housing and ethnicity were also examined in the report: the majority of children lived with native-born parents while 26.3% lived with foreign-born parents and, while the amount of children living in multigenerational households rose across all ethnic groups from 2008 to 2018, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander householders were the most likely to live with multiple generations.
The report is based on data from the Census Bureau’s 2008 and 2018 American Community Survey, the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation, and the 2007 and 2019 Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement.