Family Structure and Children’s Economic Well-Being: Incorporating Same-Sex Cohabiting Mother Families |
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Authors: | Susan L Brown Wendy D Manning Krista K Payne |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Sociology,Bowling Green State University,Bowling Green,USA;2.National Center for Family and Marriage Research,Bowling Green State University,Bowling Green,USA |
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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. |
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