Poverty history, marital history and quality of children's home environments

Article Abstract:

Researchers examined factors in the home environment of poor children. They applied a scale which measures the quality of the home environment to data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth on the extent and timing of poverty and on the marital history of the mother. The children in the sample were aged 6-9 years. The study revealed that the quality of the home environment is lower for poor children, that it improves with decreasing poverty, that the recency of the poverty is significant, and that having a married mother is of only small benefit to children in poverty but of more benefit to children living above the poverty line.

Research, Poor children, Home

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Parental work, family structure, and poverty among Latino children

Article Abstract:

Parental work and family structure were considered determinants of poverty among Hispanic American children. Parental work patterns were found to significantly affect the economic well-being of Hispanic American children. Female-headed families also suffered more from poverty than two-parent families. These findings indicate that child poverty will only be alleviated when social policies are aimed at increasing the wages of working parents, especially working mothers.

Single-parent family, Single parent family, Hispanic American children

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Poverty and marital behavior of young women

Article Abstract:

Researchers have used information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to consider the factors which encourage or hinder marriage among poor, young women in the US. It was established that women who are not poor are more likely to marry than those who are. For poor women, those who are in employment are more likely to marry than those who are not. There were no differences in marriage rates between Black, poor women and White, poor women.

Economic aspects, Young women, Marriage

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