Rural children are more likely to live in cohabiting-couple households

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Author	O'hare, William Manning, Wendy D. Porter, Meredith Lyons, Heidi Ann
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	although in sheer numbers many more urban children live with cohabitating parents, the rural numbers are still significant. The Census Bureau’s american Community survey (aCs) counts 4.8 million children living in cohabiting households in 2007, about 1 million of whom live in rural areas.2 table 1 shows the various family forms in rural and urban areas. The data for 2005–2006 show rural children are more likely to be in cohabiting households than urban children (7 percent compared with 4 percent, respectively), while urban children are slightly more likely to be in single-mother families (18 percent in urban areas compared with 16 percent in rural areas). rural and urban children are nearly as likely to live in married-couple households (66 percent in rural areas and 67 percent in urban areas), and identical shares of children live in single-father households or other family types in both areas: 3 percent were living in single-father households and 9 percent were living in other family forms. among children living with an unmarried parent, over one-fourth of rural children are in cohabiting families compared with only 16 percent of urban children. The difference in cohabitation rates between rural and urban children is a relatively recent phenomenon. in other words, the share of rural children living in cohabiting households has nearly doubled since 2000.3 During the same period, the share of urban children in cohabiting households rose only slightly, from 3 percent to 4 percent. Contrary to the typical flow of social trends, which usually move from urban to rural areas, the trend toward cohabitation is more advanced in rural areas than in urban areas. We believe the high rate of rural cohabitation lies in the greater economic pressure that rural single parents feel. Rural Children Are More Likely to Live in Cohabiting-Couple Households
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DOI	10.34051/p/2020.75
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