Social Demography of Children Living with Grandparents

描述（由申请人提供）：在美国，有400多万儿童与祖父母住在一起，占所有18岁以下儿童的7%以上。这些孩子中的大多数也至少与父母中的一方生活在一起，但其他孩子则由祖父母照顾。尽管最近的文献表明，与祖父母住在一起的孩子数量正在增加，但针对这一人群的研究有限。特别是，人们对与祖父母一起生活对孩子的影响知之甚少。这项拟议的研究评估了与祖父母一起生活和孩子经济困难之间的关系，使用了1992年和1993年收入和项目参与调查（SIPP）小组的数据，以及项目动态调查（SPD）的信息，该调查跟踪了1992/1993年SIPP的受访者，直到2002年。这项研究包括三个具体目的：(1)调查与祖父母共住有关的子女的经济困难；(2)评估小组中儿童的祖父母/外祖父母共同居住经历的变化；(3)研究祖父母同居与儿童经济困难的长期评估之间的关系。所考虑的经济福利方面包括以收入为基础的措施，例如贫困率，以及以儿童家庭的物质困难和粮食安全报告为基础的措施。此外，还将评价家庭收入的组合情况，即公共收入和私人收入的组合情况。“隔代”和“三代”家庭的孩子都要接受检查。本项目将扩大对儿童经济福利与与祖父母同住之间关系的理解，方法是考虑具有全国代表性的儿童样本，考察跨代家庭和三代家庭，分析经济困难的多种指标，评估与共同居住变化相关的儿童经济福利的变化。

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.