Female-Headed Families and Poverty in Rural America

Autor/inn/en	Snyder, Anastasia R.; McLaughlin, Diane K.
Titel	Female-Headed Families and Poverty in Rural America
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 69 (2004) 1, S.127-149 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
Schlagwörter	Rural Areas; Family Structure; Poverty; Heads of Households; Females; Urban Areas; Children; Socioeconomic Status; Economic Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Armut; Weibliches Geschlecht; Urban area; Stadtregion; Child; Kind; Kinder; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Ökonomischer Wandel
Abstract	Employing data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 March supplements of the Current Population Surveys, this study examines changing household and family structure in metro and nonmetro areas and corresponding changes in poverty, emphasizing female-headed families with children under age 18. We also pay particular attention to the structure and economic conditions of subfamilies with children during this period. Household and family structure in suburban metro and nonmetro areas were quite similar by 2000. In contrast, families and households in nonmetro and metro central city areas were similar in their high prevalence of poverty. Finally, the risk of female-headed families and subfamilies with children living in poverty is highest for nonmetro residents, and their individual characteristics suppress rather than account for this disadvantage. This pattern persisted across the decades studies, despite economic growth during the 1990s. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10