Social Demography of Children Living with Grandparents

与祖父母一起生活的儿童的社会人口学

• 批准号: 6758623
• 负责人: Jan Mutchler
• 金额: $ 8.39万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6758623
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; children; clinical research; employment /unemployment; family structure /dynamics; food resource; generation difference; grandparent; housing; human data; income; longitudinal human study; quality of life; socioeconomics; socioenvironment

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): More than four million children live with their grandparents in the United States, representing over seven percent of all children under age 18. Most of these children also live with at least one parent, but others are in the primary care of a grandparent. Despite recent literature suggesting that the numbers of children living with grandparents are growing, only limited research has focused on this population. In particular, little is known about the implications for children of living with a grandparent in the household. The proposed research assesses the association between living with a grandparent and child economic hardship, using data from the 1992 and 1993 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) combined with information from the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD), which follows the 1992/1993 SIPP respondents through 2002. The study includes three specific aims: (1) to examine economic hardship of children as it relates to grandparent coresidence; (2) to evaluate changes in grandchild-grandparent coresidence experienced by children in the panel; and (3) to examine the association between grandparent coresidence and over-time assessments of child economic hardship. Aspects of economic well-being considered include income-based measures such as the poverty rate, as well as measures based on reports of material hardship and food security in the child's household. Income packaging, or the composition of household income as derived from various public and private sources, will also be evaluated. Children in both "skipped-generation" and "three-generation" households are examined. This project will extend the understanding of the association between child economic well-being and living with grandparents by considering a nationally representative sample of children, examining both skipped generation and three-generation families, analyzing multiple indicators of economic hardship, and assessing changes in child economic well-being associated with changes in coresidence.

描述（由申请人提供）：在美国，超过 400 万儿童与祖父母一起生活，占 18 岁以下儿童总数的 7% 以上。这些儿童中的大多数还与至少一位父母住在一起，但其他儿童则由祖父母主要照顾。尽管最近的文献表明与祖父母一起生活的儿童数量正在增加，但只有有限的研究集中在这一人群上。尤其是，人们对于与祖父母一起生活对孩子的影响知之甚少。拟议的研究利用 1992 年和 1993 年收入和计划参与调查 (SIPP) 小组的数据，结合来自 1992/1993 年 SIPP 受访者至 2002 年的计划动态调查 (SPD) 的信息，评估了与祖父母一起生活和儿童经济困难之间的关联。该研究包括三个具体目标：(1) 考察与祖父母共同居住有关的儿童的经济困难； (2) 评估小组中的儿童所经历的孙子-祖父母同住的变化； (3) 研究祖父母共同居住与儿童经济困难的长期评估之间的关联。考虑的经济福祉方面包括基于收入的衡量标准，例如贫困率，以及基于儿童家庭物质困难和粮食安全报告的衡量标准。收入组合，即来自各种公共和私人来源的家庭收入的构成，也将得到评估。对“隔代”和“三代”家庭的儿童进行检查。该项目将通过考虑具有全国代表性的儿童样本、检查隔代和三代家庭、分析经济困难的多项指标以及评估与共同居住变化相关的儿童经济福祉的变化，扩大对儿童经济福祉与与祖父母一起生活之间关系的理解。