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Household Structure
Research has shown that children in two-parent
families generally achieve better outcomes, e.g., higher academic achievement,
lower high school dropout rates, fewer behavioral and mental problems and lower
likelihood to be in poverty, than children in single-parent families. However,
it would be incorrect to assume that these differences were the direct result of
the number of parents in the home, or that children in two-parent families
always do better than children in single-parent families.
- Of Pinellas County’s estimated 403,000 households, approximately 93,000
households, 23% of the total, include one or more children under the age of
18.
- Married-couple households with children under 18 are estimated to
account for 59% of all households with children under 18, moderately below
that of Florida (63%) and the U.S. (66%).
- Households led by single females with children under 18 account for 30%
of all Pinellas households with children under 18, almost three times that
of single male households. Comparable ratios for Florida and the U.S. are
28% and 25%, respectively.
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Funded Agencies:
Department of Health -
Healthy Families
Family Service Center – Childnet
Family Service Center – Family Counseling
Suncoast Center for Community Mental Health – Total Family
Strategy
Achieve Tampa Bay
– Respite Care
Children’s Home
– Kinship Services Network of Pinellas
Read More About It:
KIDS COUNT Indicator Brief:
Increasing the Percentage of Children Living in Two-Parent Families,
July 2009
Family Structure, Child Trends Databank
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/?q=node/231
America's Families and Living Arrangements 2007
Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db18.htm
Living Arrangements of Children: 2004:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p70-114.pdf
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