Table 6.

Living arrangements and poverty status of children ages 0–14 living with parents

	Married parents	Cohabiting parents	Single parent	Total
	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)
A. Lives With Two Biological/Adoptive Parents	93.0	47.9*	n/a	n/a
B. Parent-Child Relationships in Two-Parent Families
Family has shared biological/adopted children
Shared children only	87.0	35.8*	n/a	n/a
Shared and stepchildren	9.5	22.4*	n/a	n/a
Family has stepchildren only
Female partner’s only	2.2	26.7*	n/a	n/a
Male partner’s only	0.4	7.1*	n/a	n/a
Stepchildren of both partners	0.9	8.0*	n/a	n/a
Total	100.0	100.0		n/a
C. Household Composition
Parent(s) and children only	91.2	87.0*	71.5*	86.3
Lives with other relatives or nonrelatives	8.8	13.0*	28.5*	13.7
Grandparentsa	4.1	4.2	18.9*	7.6
Other relativesa	4.7	6.7*	16.2*	7.6
Nonrelatives/Unknowna	1.2	4.3*	3.0*	1.8
D. Poverty Status: 2006–2008
Total family poverty	9.2	19.7*	39.2*	17.0
Parent-child povertyb	9.7	21.3*	47.9*	19.6
Unweighted n (children)	68,621	5,990	21,195	95,806

Note: The unit of analysis is the child and includes only children living with at least one parent.

^aThese categories are not mutually exclusive.

^bCalculated using the same method as couple poverty status.

Source: Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey, 2007–2009.

^*Significantly different from estimate for married parents (p < .05)