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http://www.demos.org/blog/4/14/14/single-mother-child-poverty-mythabsolutely, and the person with $3 in their pocket is better off than the person with $1. But both of them are screwed if it costs $5 to eat.
Poverty rates are higher among single parent homes regardless of race.
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but to imply that the shortage of stable mothers or fathers is the cause of poverty in majority minority areas as opposed to being a side effect of it? without even looking i can be pretty certain research favors the ladder position more than the former.
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One big problem with this claim is that family composition in the US is not that much different from family compositions in the famed low-poverty social democracies of Northern Europe, but they don't have anywhere near the rates of child poverty we have.
A number of studies have tested this family composition theory using cross-country income data and found, again and again, that family composition differences account for very little of the child poverty differences between the US and other countries.
Testing this hypothesis turns out to be really simple. The first thing you do is create a number of family categories. In a 2008 study of this sort, the family categories were: 1) married couple, 2) cohabitating couple, 3) single dad, 4) single mom, and 5) single mom with other adults in the household. The second thing you do is figure out what percentage of all the children live in each kind of family arrangement. The third thing you do is figure out the child poverty rate for each of the family categories (with poverty defined here as families with less than 50 percent of the median income). By multiplying the percentage of children living in each family category by each categories' child poverty rate (and then summing the results), you get the overall child poverty rate.
From there, it is simple enough to just hold the child poverty rates for each family category constant and alter the distribution of children across family types. The following graph is what you get when you use this method to simulate what the US childhood poverty rate would be if children were distributed across the five family categories in exactly the same proportion as children in Finland, Norway, and Sweden are (these being the three countries with the lowest childhood poverty rates):
Holding all else equal, if the family composition of the US matched the family composition of Finland, the child poverty rate in the US would fall from 22 percent to 21.6 percent. If the US had Norway's family composition, the US child poverty rate would increase from 22 percent to 22.9 percent. For Sweden's family composition, it'd increase all the way up to 25 percent. If anything, the family composition of the US is keeping child poverty down somewhat relative to these countries.
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so u take every advantage u can muster.
why not advocate for more 2 parent households and school choice?
