Family Structure and Children’s Economic Well-Being: Incorporating Same-Sex Cohabiting Mother Families

Susan Brown (), Wendy Manning () and Krista Payne ()

Population Research and Policy Review, 2016, vol. 35, issue 1, 21 pages

Abstract: Research on family structure and child well-being rarely includes children in same-sex parent families, a notable omission since 28 % of female–female couple households contain children. Using the 2010–2013 pooled current population survey (CPS), we examined children’s economic well-being by family structure. These data were ideal for this study because they included a sizeable number of children in same-sex cohabiting mother families and the CPS measured both official and supplemental poverty, incorporating the cohabiting partner. Using the official poverty measure, children in same-sex cohabiting mother families were more likely to be poor than their counterparts in either different-sex cohabiting or married parent families. Using the supplemental poverty measure, children in same-sex mother families were no more likely to be poor than children in all other types of different-sex two-parent families. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016

Keywords: Child well-being; Cohabitation; Family structure; Marriage; Poverty; Same-sex couples (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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