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Family Structure and Children’s Economic Well-Being: Incorporating Same-Sex Cohabiting Mother Families

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  • Susan Brown
  • Wendy Manning
  • Krista Payne

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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. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016

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  • Susan Brown & Wendy Manning & Krista Payne, 2016. "Family Structure and Children’s Economic Well-Being: Incorporating Same-Sex Cohabiting Mother Families," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 35(1), pages 1-21, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:poprpr:v:35:y:2016:i:1:p:1-21
    DOI: 10.1007/s11113-015-9375-8
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    Cited by:

    1. Ifra Bashir & Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, 2023. "A Systematic Literature Review on Personal Financial Well-Being: The Link to Key Sustainable Development Goals 2030," FIIB Business Review, , vol. 12(1), pages 31-48, March.
    2. Olga Alonso-Villar & Coral del Río, 2023. "Poverty among Same-Sex Couple Families in the United States: Is There a Premium for Married Couples?," Working Papers 2301, Universidade de Vigo, Departamento de Economía Aplicada.
    3. M. V. Lee Badgett, 2018. "Left Out? Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Poverty in the U.S," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 37(5), pages 667-702, October.

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