Sentences with phrase «households with children reported»

40.6 % of households with children reported that in 2009 they were unable to afford enough food in the last year.

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The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

In this report, fathers include those men who are ages 15 or older, who are the head of their household, and who report living with their own minor children (biological children, step - children or adopted children).

According to current statistics, in the U.S. today women make up 50 % of the workforce (The Shriver Report, 2009) and dual - career couples comprise over 70 % of two parent households with children (Bianchi, 2008).

These included fathers» age in years, race and ethnicity, household poverty level (as a percentage of the federal poverty level), educational level (less than high school, high school or equivalent, some college or more), employment status (reporting regular work in the last week), and marital status with the child's mother.

Although the quantity and quality of these interactions are unclear in FFCWS data, these findings are consistent with a 2009 national study (unpublished) reporting that 76 % of US fathers living in households with children age 0 to 2 years of age reported attending a well child visit within the past year.36 As suggested in Bright Futures, 37 well - child visits may be an opportunity to screen fathers for depression and refer them for treatment.

Scientific American reported in 2009 that a joint U.S. / Swedish study looking into the effects of household contaminants discovered that children who live in homes with vinyl floors — which can emit hazardous chemicals called phthalates — are twice as likely to develop signs of autism as kids in other homes.

Poorer children have worse cognitive, social - behavioural and health outcomes because they are poor, and not just because poverty is correlated with other household and parental characteristics, according to a new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Data in the present report are only for households with children under five years of age.

Only onefourth of teenagers in households with less than $ 35,000 in annual income said they had their own laptops compared with 62 percent in households with annual incomes of $ 100,000 or more, according to the report, to be published on Tuesday by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit children's advocacy and media ratings group based in San Francisco.

In this report, we examine need estimates through the lens of four different policy options for financing of out - of - school time programs: universal coverage (every child in a public school receives full or partial subsidy), subsidies for children and young people in households with incomes at 130 percent of the poverty line, subsidies for those designated as «at risk» for academic failure, and subsidies for those in households with incomes at or below the poverty line.

With the USDA reporting 42.2 million people in America, including more than 13 million children lived in households at at risk of struggling with hunger, the Walmart Foundation grants are helping provide meals to those who need them the most, helping students access the nutritious food they need for focused minds — both in and out of schWith the USDA reporting 42.2 million people in America, including more than 13 million children lived in households at at risk of struggling with hunger, the Walmart Foundation grants are helping provide meals to those who need them the most, helping students access the nutritious food they need for focused minds — both in and out of schwith hunger, the Walmart Foundation grants are helping provide meals to those who need them the most, helping students access the nutritious food they need for focused minds — both in and out of school.

The same report noted that children in families with an annual household income below $ 35,000 are more likely to watch TV (40 percent) than read books (35 percent).

Methodology, In Brief: Results of the Kids & Family Reading Report: 6th Edition are from a nationally representative survey with a total sample size of 2,718 parents and children, including 632 parents of children ages 0 — 5; 1,043 parents of children ages 6 — 17; plus one child age 6 — 17 from the same household, conducted from September 19, 2016 through October 10, 2016.

Canada's current tax rate structure means that a couple with two children in which spouses report a taxable income of $ 60,000 and $ 20,000, respectively, would pay about $ 1,210 more in federal income taxes in 2014 than a couple with two children in which both spouses report a taxable income of $ 40,000, even though their combined household income is the same at $ 80,000.

Instead, households without children are more likely to have scores at the top of the ranking, with 17 percent of these households reporting a credit score of 800 or higher, compared to 5 percent in this category among indebted households with children living at home.

Finally, raising children appears to have a negative association with credit scores, as households with one or more children at home are more likely to report poor credit.

According to the Demos study: 31 percent of households who have had a member out of work for two months or longer in the past three years, reported that their credit score had declined over the same period of time; households that include someone without health coverage were twice as likely to report declined credit scores; and 23 percent of indebted households raising children described their credit scores as poor, compared with 12 percent of indebted households without kids.

The report also found that those who own a smart speaker tend be younger, wealthier, and more likely to live in «family» households with children — all factors that could contribute in their own way to driving more voice shopping purchases.

The findings reported herein suggest that remission of maternal depression over 3 months is statistically significantly associated with reduction in children's current symptoms and diagnoses after controlling for the child's age and sex, baseline symptoms, socioeconomic status (annual household income), as well as severity of maternal depression at baseline, mother's treatment setting, and the child's treatment status over the 3 - month follow - up.

One study uses mothers» reports of nonresident father involvement with a representative sample of children in 1997.34 Of those fathers, 34 percent had no contact with the child's household at all, and 49 percent had no influence on decision making.

Beneficial effects were also found for low - income households (three of 19 outcomes) with the quality of home learning environment higher and lower rates of jobless households and mothers reporting that the neighbourhood is a better place to bring up children.

It's primarily about economic well - being, but: «Children living with both biological parents reported higher levels of life satisfaction than children living with a single parent or parent / step - parent... Controlling perceived family affluence, the difference between joint physical custody families and single mother or mother / stepfather families became non-significant... [and] children in the Nordic countries characterised by strong welfare systems reported significantly higher levels of life satisfaction in all living arrangements except in single father houChildren living with both biological parents reported higher levels of life satisfaction than children living with a single parent or parent / step - parent... Controlling perceived family affluence, the difference between joint physical custody families and single mother or mother / stepfather families became non-significant... [and] children in the Nordic countries characterised by strong welfare systems reported significantly higher levels of life satisfaction in all living arrangements except in single father houchildren living with a single parent or parent / step - parent... Controlling perceived family affluence, the difference between joint physical custody families and single mother or mother / stepfather families became non-significant... [and] children in the Nordic countries characterised by strong welfare systems reported significantly higher levels of life satisfaction in all living arrangements except in single father houchildren in the Nordic countries characterised by strong welfare systems reported significantly higher levels of life satisfaction in all living arrangements except in single father households.

Mothers in food insecure households are significantly more likely to report symptoms of depression and are more likely to exhibit inattentive or negative parenting behavior than parents in food secure households., Because early childhood development is facilitated by the infant's relationships with caregivers, depressed and negative parenting can and does have adverse effects on a growing child's development.

Police reports indicate many families struggled financially — sharing or going without a car, lacking reliable child care, living with parents or sharing a crowded mobile home with many people — possibly contributing to greater stress in the household.

Parenting is also often physically demanding: some parents with young children spend a significant part of their day cleaning, doing laundry, and performing other household tasks, and many report insufficient sleep.

A report released by the D.C. auditor this summer estimates there are 6,300 households with children under 5 that would benefit from home - visiting programs, based on risk - factor data including poverty levels, access to prenatal care and developmental delays.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.

They did not differ in consistent ways from other families, and children in single - mother households did not report any differences in well - being or relationships compared with children in other types of families... Mothers in two - parent biological families reported that their children had fewer behavior problems (but did not differ from stepmothers» reports) and spent more time with their children (but did not differ from adoptive mothers» reports) than did mothers in other types of families.

Mothers were primarily biological (92 %) and married (75 %), and 73 % reported living in two - parent households with the participating child's father; there were no ethnic differences in these family composition variables.

Self - report data were collected on participants» marital status, gender, ethnicity, education, employment status, household income, and number of children in the home, as well as the following information about their child with an ASD: age, gender, ASD diagnosis, and age first diagnosed with an ASD.