Year: 2024
Type: report
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Children are raised in a wide range of families including those with same-sex and different-sex parents.This profile provides the most recent evidence about the share of couples raising children, disaggregating across different-sex and same-sex couples as well as across marriage and cohabitation , and is an update of a previously released Family Profile (Manning & Payne, 2021).Using American Community Survey data from 2022 we provide the most up-to-date estimates regarding the share of couples raising children, disaggregating across different-sex and same-sex couples relationship type and age.In the ACS only the relationships of household members to the household head are collected, therefore, w e present a single year snapshot of the share of couples who are raising an "own child of the householder" 1 and/or a foster child of the householder.In 2022 a total of 286,059 children were living with a same-sex couple across 171,324 households.Given our focus on couples raising minor children, we also restrict our sample to couples in which the younge r member is under the age of sixty.
Authors: Krista Westrick-Payne, Wendy Manning
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4399310328