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Tagged: Census, children, statisticCensus Bureau Reports 64 Percent Increase in Number of Children
Living with a Grandparent Over Last Two Decades
In 2009, 7.8 million children lived with at least one grandparent, a 64
percent increase since 1991 when 4.7 million children lived with a
grandparent, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Among children living with a grandparent, 76 percent also were living
with at least one parent in 2009, not statistically different from the 77
percent who lived with at least one parent in 1991.
“The people with whom children live affect their well-being,” said Rose
Kreider, a family demographer with the U.S. Census Bureau. “These
statistics give us a lot of detail about the number of parents children
live with, as well as whether they live with siblings, grandparents or
other relatives.”
These statistics released today come from the household relationship
module of the Survey of Income and Program Participation collected in 2009
and published in the report Living Arrangements of Children: 2009.
In 1991, 5 percent of white, 15 percent of black and 12 percent of
Hispanic children lived with at least one grandparent. By 2009, 9 percent
of white, 17 percent of black and 14 percent of Hispanic children lived
with at least one grandparent, a significant change for white children but
not for black or Hispanic children.
Many children who do not live with a parent live with a grandparent.
More than half of the children living with no parents were living with
grandparents. Percentages for black children (64 percent) and non-Hispanic
white children (55 percent) did not differ from Hispanic children (61
percent), but the percentage of Asian children living with no parents who
lived with grandparents was lower, at 35 percent.
In 2009, 69 percent of the 74.1 million children under 18 lived with two
parents. Four percent (2.9 million) of all children lived with both a
mother and father who were not married to each other.
Between 1991 and 2009, children living with only their mother increased
from 21 percent to 24 percent.
The percentage of children living with their mother without a father
present varied widely among race and origin groups in 2009, from 8 percent
for Asian children to 50 percent for black children. Seventeen percent of
non-Hispanic white children and 26 percent of Hispanic children also lived
with their mother only.
Seven percent of all children lived with an unmarried parent who was
cohabiting. The percentage of all children who lived with a cohabiting
parent ranged from 2 percent for Asian children to 9 percent for Hispanic
children. Falling between these were non-Hispanic white children (6
percent) and black children (7 percent), not different from each other or
the percentage for all children.
Overall, 16 percent of children lived with a stepparent, stepsibling or
half sibling. Thirteen percent of children living with one parent and 18
percent of children living with two parents lived in these blended
families.
Most children (78 percent) lived with at least one sibling. Among those,
most (83 percent) lived with only full siblings from the same biological
mother and father. Fourteen percent of children who lived with siblings
lived with at least one half sibling, sharing only one biological parent.
Living Arrangements of Children: 2009 examines the diversity of
children’s living arrangements in households in the United States and
describes extended family households with relatives and nonrelatives where
their presence may have an effect on the development and economic
well-being of those children. It also describes the degree to which
children are living in married-couple families, single-parent families or
with stepparents, adoptive parents or no parents while in the care of
another relative or guardian.
The sample size in this survey does not allow for comparison estimates
for American Indians and Alaska Natives, Pacific Islanders and people of
more than one race.
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