Households and families

How Households Differ from Families

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How Households Differ from Families

Families and Households of the Elderly Population

Long-term demographic trends that determine the absolute and relative size of the elderly population also underlie changes in the proportions of older people with living spouses and children. Such changes have important implications for residential isolation, the provision of care and the overall quality of life of the old. Demographic trends influencing the family situations of older people in...

Health Issues in Latino Families and Households

The Latino population in the United States continues to increase, diversify, and disperse geographically in dramatic fashion. Latinos are now the largest race/ethnic minority group in the United States, a fact not fully recognized by scholars, public officials, health practitioners, or people in the United States (Grieco & Cassidy, 2001). They are projected to constitute nearly one fourth of th...

SSI Recipients in Households and Families with Multiple Recipients: Prevalence and Poverty Outcomes

by Melissa Koenig and Kalman Rupp This article provides new estimates of the prevalence of households with two or more unmarried recipients of SSI and analyzes the poverty status of three groups: individual recipients, married couple recipients, and two or more noncouple recipients living in the same household. It finds that outcomes are sensitive to assumptions regarding economies of scale for...