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Living
Arrangements of Children
Black Children
-Source: United States Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/ms-la/tabch-3.txt
Living Arrangements
of Black Children
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Since 1960,
the proportion of black children living with a single parent more
than doubled, from 22% to 53.3% in 2000. Since 1980, more black
children have lived with a single parent than with two parents
(42% versus 45% respectively) in 1980, and since 1983, the majority
(at least 53.6%) have lived with a single parent.
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The proportion
of black children living with two parents declined most sharply
in the 1970's, falling more than 25% from 58% in 1970 to 43% in
1979. The percentage living with a single parent increased from
31% to 44% during that same period. * In 1995, the percentage
of black children living in two-parent homes reached a historic
low of 33%, only half the percentage (67%) in 1960. From 1996
to 2000, this rose to about 37.6% the proportion of black children
living with one parent stabilized at about 57% between the years
1996-1999 and then dropped slightly to 53.3% in 2000.
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Since 1980,
the majority of black children have lived in single-mother households,
which currently constitutes 92% of all black single-parent households.
Single-father households are the fastest growing type in the total
population constituting 16% of all single-parent families but
only 8% of those where the father was black.
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In 2000, 7.7%
of black children lived with relatives rather than a mother or
father, and about 1.5% resided with non-relatives. These percentages
rose in the late 1970's and in the early 1980's before declining
from 1995 to 2000.
White
Children
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From 1960
to 2000, the proportion of white children living with both parents
declined from 90.9% to 75% compared to a decrease from 67% to
37.6% among black children.
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The percentage
of white children living with a single parent grew from 7.1% in
1960 to 21.6% in 2000, a three-fold increase. The corresponding
black figures doubled, from 21.9% to 53.3%. Thus while the growth
in the white rate outpaced that in the black rate, the absolute
percentage for blacks remained much higher than for whites.
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Most white
children in single-parent homes lived with their mothers (80%)
in 2000. However, the percentage of white children in single-parent
families who lived with their fathers increased from 14% in 1960
to 19.9% in 2000. This was more than double the percentage of
black children of single parents living with their fathers (8%).
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Proportionately
fewer white children (2%) than black children (7.7%) live with
relatives other than their mother or father. About 1% to 2% of
both black and white children resided with non-relatives in 2000.
References
Prepared by Cassandra
Cantave and Roderick Harrison for the Joint Center for Political and
Economic Studies August 2001.
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