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2007-08 JWB Performance Report Executive Summary

 
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Children Living With Relatives

Children live with relatives other than their birth parents for a number of reasons including abandonment, death, incarceration, substance abuse, mental illness, financial problems or an abusive or neglectful home environment.  Many of the circumstances that lead to such a living arrangement can have a lasting emotional and psychological impact on a child.

  • According to the Census Bureau’s 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), the latest available survey:

    • The percentage of children under 18 in the United States living with two parents declined from over 85% in 1970 to just under 70% in 2004. The percentage of children living with at least one parent declined one percentage point to 96%.

    • 2.9 million children did not live with a parent. Approximately 56% lived with a grandparent and 22% lived with another relative. 11% lived with a foster parent.

  • According to the Census Bureau’s 2005-2007 American Community Survey:

    • 48 % of Pinellas County grandparents who lived with their own grandchildren under the age of 18 were also responsible for their care.

    • Of those grandparents living with and responsible for the care of their grandchildren:

      • 60% were responsible for their grandchildren’s care for 3 years or more and 32% for 5 years or more

      • 69% were under the age of 60

      • 65% were female

      • 65% were married (includes separated and spouse absent)

      • 61% were working

      • 81% were at or above the poverty level

  • Approximately 57% of grandchildren who were living with and under the responsibility of a grandparent also had a parent present in the household.



Funded Agencies:

Children’s Home – Kinship Care
Children’s Home - Kinship Services Network of Pinellas
African American Leadership Council
Sanderlin Center

Read More About It:

New Help for Children Raised by Grandparents and Other Relatives: Questions and Answers About the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008
http://www.aecf.org/KnowledgeCenter/Publications.aspx?pubguid={6AD31D00-CEE7-43E9-AE9C-D953DF424E54}

 

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