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- Title
Plausible Increase in Parental Employment Likely to Produce Only a Slight Decline in Child Poverty.
- Authors
Hollander, D.
- Abstract
This article reports that levels of child poverty are closely associated with parental employment, regardless of whether families are headed by one or two parents. Nevertheless, changes in parental employment of a magnitude that can reasonably be expected would have little effect on child poverty rates. Furthermore, African American children are much more likely than whites to be poor, and the differential is not attributable to racial differences in parental employment. This was revealed by an analysis of data from the March 1990 annual demographic supplement of the Current Population Survey. The investigators studied patterns of parental employment and child poverty in families headed by a married couple and by a mother only. They constructed models to illustrate the potential effects of various increases in parental employment, and they evaluated the role of parental employment as a factor on racial differences in child poverty. Among children living with both parents, 10 percent lived in official poverty in 1989, 3 percent in deep poverty and 13 percent in relative poverty.
- Subjects
POOR children; POVERTY; PARENTS; EMPLOYMENT; CHILDREN; WEALTH
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 2, p88
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135912