Fragile families in the American welfare state |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Columbia University, School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, NY 10027, USA;2. University College London, Epidemiology and Public Health, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK;1. Institute of Human Physiology and Clinical Experimental Research, Semmelweis University, Hungary;2. Heart Centre, Semmelweis University, Hungary;3. Gottsegen György Hungarian Institute of Cardiology, Semmelweis University, Hungary;1. Couple and Family Therapy Program, Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville, 310 N. Whittington Pkwy, Louisville, KY 40222, USA;2. Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 625 N. Michigan Ave., Ste. 2700, Chicago, IL 60611, USA;3. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children''s Hospital of Chicago, Box 161, 225 E Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611, USA;1. Child Health and Development Institute, Farmington, CT, United States;2. Department of Psychiatry, UCONN Health Center, Farmington, CT, United States;3. Judge Baker Children''s Center, Boston, MA, United States;4. Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States;5. The Consultation Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States;6. University of South Florida, Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Tampa, FL, United States |
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| Abstract: | The proportion of children born out of wedlock is now over 40%. At birth, about half of these parents are co-habiting. This paper examines data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study (N = 4271) to describe for the first time the role of welfare state benefits in the economic lives of married, cohabiting, and single parent families with young children. Surprisingly, total welfare state benefits received by the three family types are relatively similar. Nearly half of the full incomes of fragile families come from welfare state transfers. For single parent families the proportion is slightly more than two thirds. Though aggregate welfare state transfers are approximately equal across family type and thus change very little as marital status changes, these transfers and the taxes required to finance them cushion family status changes and substantially narrow the gap in full income between married and fragile families. |
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