Children residing with no parent present

Richard Bavier

Children and Youth Services Review, 2011, vol. 33, issue 10, 1891-1901

Abstract: Although foster care and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families "child-only" caseloads have fallen from heights in the 1990s, detailed household relationship data from panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) establish that the share of children residing with no parent present (NoPP) has been rising for decades. Characteristics of NoPP children and the composition and poverty rates of their households are traced over time. Most NoPP spells are found to last 2Â years or more. Special attention is paid to "informal care" children, the majority of NoPP children not in contact with foster care or income support programs designed to assist children with no parent present and provide access to health care. By several measures of well-being, informal care children occupy a margin between all children and other NoPP children. Children residing with only one parent are at higher risk of entering NoPP status than those with both parents present.

Keywords: Kinship; care; Poverty; Child; well-being; Single; parents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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