Family Structure
Families come in
many different shapes and sizes and the family structure sometimes
changes while children are growing up. The typical family consists of a
father and mother caring for their children. In a single-parent family
one parent cares for a child or children on their own. Sometimes a
family structure changes from two-parent to single parent due to
separation, divorce, death, or incarceration. In families described as
kinship care, the primary caregiver for a child is a relative other than
the birth mother or father.
Pinellas
County is estimated to have approximately 417,000 households.
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Approximately 100,000 households, 24.1% of the total, include one or
more youth under the age of 18.
Family households, a family household includes a householder and one or
more people living in the same household who are related to the
householder by birth, marriage, or adoption, account for just under 99%
of all households with youth under the age of 18 compared to 43% for
households with no youth under 18.
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Married-couple family households with youth under 18 are estimated to
account for 61% of all households with youth under 18.
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Households led by females with youth under 18 and no spouse present
are estimated at 30,000, approximately 30% of family households and
four times the number of single male householders.
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:
Living Arrangements of Children: 2004:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p70-114.pdf
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