Social Structure and Child Poverty

Autor/in	Ferriss, Abbott L.
Titel	Social Structure and Child Poverty
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 78 (2006) 3, S.453-472 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-005-1606-7
Schlagwörter	Social Structure; Poverty; Social Indicators; Quality of Life; Factor Analysis; Counties; Children; Child Welfare; Demography; Economic Factors; Family Influence; Public Health; African Americans; Whites; Racial Differences; Rural Areas; Disadvantaged Environment; Urban Areas; Correlation; Place of Residence; Unemployment; Educational Attainment; Age Differences; One Parent Family; Females; Grandparents Raising Grandchildren; Disabilities; Marital Status; Middle Class; Family Income; Georgia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialstruktur; Armut; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Lebensqualität; Faktorenanalyse; Child; Kind; Kinder; Kindeswohl; Demografie; Ökonomischer Faktor; Gesundheitswesen; Afroamerikaner; White; Weißer; Rassenunterschied; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Urban area; Stadtregion; Korrelation; Wohnort; Arbeitslosigkeit; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Weibliches Geschlecht; Großeltern-Enkel-Beziehung; Handicap; Behinderung; Familienstand; Mittelschicht; Familieneinkommen
Abstract	Child poverty, as a critical indicator of the QOL, is intricately related to the social structure of the community. This hypothesis is explored for the 159 counties of Georgia for the year 2000. The influence of demographic, economic, family and health factors upon child poverty are explored through models of total, black and white child poverty. Factor analyses of factors uncovered by the models identify the social-structural features of counties in relation to child poverty. Counties considered "Deprived/rural" harbor child poverty, while counties described as "Business/money" and "Progressive/urban" bear a negative relationship to child poverty. Positively associated with child poverty are residential stability, unemployment, low educational achievement, youth and age dependency, single-parent female household heads with children, grandparent child care, and health disability of child, elders and of working-age persons. Structural factors militating against child poverty are persons with greater education, higher population density, out migration, larger married population, higher retail sales, larger middle class families, higher weekly wages, and other structural features of the county. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10