Family Well Being News
"Every two minutes a white baby is born into poverty, as is a black baby. A Hispanic baby is born into poverty every minute. Every three minutes a white baby is born at low birthweight. It's every every seven minutes for Hispanic babies and every six minutes for black babies."
"...People who are high school dropouts or have only a high school diploma are more likely to skip marriage, have children and live in poverty, while those with college degrees are likely to marry first, then have babies and raise them with higher incomes."
"Her path from the middle class to desperate poverty began when she was laid off in December 2008. Then-living in Orlando, Fla., Perales moved back in with friends in Westbury, but there wasn't enough room or money for her four children."
"The first results of a massive, federally funded study into relationship dynamics of 5,000 low-income couples have been released."
"The Mothers & Children Housing Ministry will be an emergency and transitional housing program for mothers with preadolescent children who are or are about to become homeless. The goal is to give the mothers stability to make good decisions and become independent..."
"Facing pressure from parents and child care providers worried about latchkey kids, the board that oversees subsidized child care for low-income families refused to vote last month on a measure that would have ended after-school services for older children"
"All but one of eight major programs designed to help low-income, unwed parents with their relationships failed to produce significant benefits, a new study concluded."
"The effects of abuse, poverty and neglect that some kids carry with them to school can be like an extra backpack weighing heavily on weak shoulders. Educators say that explains why some fail, fight or simply shut down."
"That has left swelling numbers of low-income families struggling to reconcile the demands of work and parenting, just as they confront one of the toughest job markets in decades."
"Among children of low-income parents, only 26 percent of those whose parents divorced managed to climb into the middle or top income levels when they reached adulthood."
"No, the money being requested to help kids get from foster care to independent living without ending up in jail or homeless on the streets wouldn't be enough to pay for a feasibility study for the smallest capital project proposed."
"The state's most comprehensive annual survey of how Utah children are doing shows the 19 and under population is booming, the number of teens having kids is rising and so are families receiving government income and food subsidies."
"'The likelihood is these can affect children throughout their lives, and not just low-income children,' said Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute, a nonprofit research center."
"[T]here's been a worrisome increase in the number of children who 'age out' of the system over the last decade. These children, who are launched into the world without any adult support, have substantially higher rates of homelessness and poverty throughout the rest of their lives."
"About two-thirds of poor children live in single-parent homes. Government spends $300 billion annually to assist low-income single parents. But if poor single mothers married the fathers of their children, nearly two-thirds could escape poverty immediately."
"Officials said that doesn't mean African Americans abused or neglected their kids more. The link was between poverty and abuse, since the children tended to come from poor families."
"He warned that a disintegration of the black family threatened to undermine President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty. Black out-of-wedlock birthrates had soared since World War II to 25 percent, compared to 7 percent for whites."
"To make matters even worse, most children from unwed teens are raised by single women. Statistics show that boys and girls from single-parent families are more apt to live in poverty and experience academic problems in school than [similar] stable two-parent households..."
"Compared with children who lived with a parent, children in kinship care were more likely to be black, older than 9 years, have public health insurance and live in households with incomes at or near the poverty level."
"Robert and three other central Ohio young people are linked to the company because of a different dream. It imagines a kind of corporate adoption, one in which employees sponsor the four during the course of a year to help keep them from becoming homeless again."
''Until we can evaluate what happens to the hundreds of young people who leave foster care each year, we will not know if we are putting them on the path to success or creating a generation of disconnected youth stuck in poverty.''
" With 40 percent of children born to unwed mothers today, and a growing marriage gap between wealthy and poor, we can't afford to go on pretending that strengthening marriage is a conservative or liberal cause."
"Tasha Collett spent most of her teen years shuffling between so many different foster families that she's lost count of just how many there were. By the time she aged out of the Iowa system at age 18, she ended up living in homeless shelters, on and off."
"If the state slashes Tamarra Lestage's only safety net -- a monthly stipend given to former foster children -- she'll become homeless. Lestage, 21, of Fort Lauderdale, is a full-time student who became a ward of the state at 13."
"Looking at this responsible young adult, it's hard to imagine that when he was 16, Andre was homeless, orphaned and trying to care for two younger siblings."
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