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Publication Date: October 2005
Publisher: Columbia University. National Center for Children in Poverty
Author(s): Heather Koball; Ayana Douglas-Hall
Research Area: Social conditions
Keywords: child poverty; low-wage work
Type: Fact sheet
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Recent public policy initiatives have encouraged low-income parents to marry as a means of attaining economic security. But, the data tell a more complex story. Marriage does not guarantee economic security. Not only do the majority of children in single-parent families have parents who were previously married, but over a quarter of children with married parents are low income.