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08-02-2022 | Original Paper

Counting Families, Counting Race: Assessing Visible Family Structural Change among Multiracial Families, 1980–2018

Auteurs: Jenifer Bratter, Raul S. Casarez, Allan Farrell, Sharan Kaur Mehta, Xiaorui Zhang, Michael Carroll

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 3/2022

Abstract

Racially mixed children are a rapidly expanding segment of American families, signaling the ongoing blurring of racial boundaries. Most of what is known about multiraciality is drawn from analyses of two-parent families even as marriage became decreasingly tied to childbearing. The current study tracked the prevalence and racial composition of multiracial families where parents are married and unmarried from 1980 until 2018 using data from the U.S. Census and American Community Survey. We find that multiracial families are increasingly common amongst married and unmarried parents with the greatest growth occurring among White unmarried mothers, nearly 15% of whom have multiracial children as of 2018. Additionally, we find that Asian-White and Hispanic-White children are more likely to live in married families while Black-White and dual minority children are disproportionately represented amongst single-parent families. Ultimately, capturing the complexity of racialized contexts where multiracial children are found, as well as how the prevalence of these contexts has changed over time, requires accounting for family structure differences.

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Titel: Counting Families, Counting Race: Assessing Visible Family Structural Change among Multiracial Families, 1980–2018
Auteurs: Jenifer Bratter
Raul S. Casarez
Allan Farrell
Sharan Kaur Mehta
Xiaorui Zhang
Michael Carroll
Publicatiedatum: 08-02-2022
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 3/2022
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02244-x

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