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- Title
Rapid Changes in Household Composition Among Low Income Mothers.
- Authors
Slesinger, Doris P.
- Abstract
Change in family structure over a 17 month period in a sample of 123 low-income urban and rural Wisconsin mothers who gave birth in 1974 is examined. One-third of the households changed household types as measured by presence or absence of male partner and/or extended family members. One-third of the mothers were heads of households at the study's outset; of these, two-thirds remained heads over the time period. Mother's age, education, and poverty status were characteristics most strongly related to household composition changes. These results suggest that considerable fluidity occurs in family composition over relatively short time periods, and caution should be taken when relating characteristics of families at one point in time to an outcome measure, such as child development, which depends on the passage of time.
- Subjects
WISCONSIN; UNITED States; MOTHERS; POOR people; INCOME; FAMILIES
- Publication
Family Relations, 1980, Vol 29, Issue 2, p221
- ISSN
0197-6664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/584076