WASHINGTON – The number of children receiving food stamps remains higher than it was before the start of the Great Recession in 2007, according to data released Wednesday from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The rate of children living with married parents who receive food stamps has doubled since 2007. In 2014, an estimated 16 million children, or about one in five, received food stamp assistance compared with the roughly 9 million children, or one in eight, that received this form of assistance prior to the recession.
These statistics come from the 2014 Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement, which has collected statistics on families and living arrangements for more than 60 years.
The census bureau reported that of the 73.7 million children under 18 in the United States:
10 percent live with a grandparent (7.4 million).
79 percent live with at least one sibling (58.5 million).
15 percent have a stay-at-home mother (10.8 million), and 0.6 percent have a stay-at-home father (420,000).
38 percent have at least one foreign-born parent (28.3 million).
The share of children who live with one parent only has tripled since 1960, from about 9 percent to 27 percent.
Less than half (48 percent) of households today are married couples, down from 76 percent in 1940.
The median age when adults first marry continues to rise. In 2014, it was 29 for men and 27 for women, up from 24 and 21, respectively, in 1947.
36 percent of 30- to 34-year-olds have never been married.
Married couples have more children in the household, on average, than either single mothers or single fathers.
Married couples make up the majority (72 percent) of the 86.4 million family groups, which are defined as two or more people who live together and are related by birth, marriage or adoption. Unmarried mothers and unmarried fathers make up 12 percent and 2 percent of family groups, respectively.
24 percent of married families with children under 15 have a stay-at-home mother, and 1 percent have a stay-at-home father.
Unmarried couples
7.9 million opposite-sex unmarried couples live together.
39 percent of opposite-sex unmarried couples have a child under 18.
Such a sad state of affairs. Where is personal pride. What a shame the government promotes this and enslaves the people into poverty.
Just how the f**k do these people get away with it. Isnt there a fraud #### to call to report deadbeats that wont work but get assistance???
what about dead beat drunkin dads that don’t want to get a full time job getting food stamps?? And were paying for these losers to get them. They eat and drink better than most of hard working tax payers. “ENOUGH SAID”
As the government says – OUR ECONOMY IS IMPROVING ! That is IF you have a government job – SAD SAD SAD –