COMMENTARY: on CHILD POVERTY

Source: Family First

CHILD POVERTY & FAMILY STRUCTURE
What is the evidence telling us?

Despite families being much smaller, parents being older, mothers being better educated and having much higher employment rates, child poverty has risen significantly since the 1960s. In 1961, 95 percent of children were born to married couples; by 2015 the proportion had fallen to 53 percent.  For Maori, 72 percent of births were to married parents in 1968; by 2015 the proportion had fallen to just 21 percent. In 2015, 27 percent of registered births were to cohabiting parents.

The risk of parental separation by the time the child is aged five is, however, 4-6 times greater than for married parents. Cohabiting relationships are becoming less stable over time.  Cohabiting parents are financially poorer than married parents. They form an interim group between married and single parent families.

Single parent families make up 28 percent of all families with dependent children. These families are the poorest in New Zealand. 51% of children in poverty live in single parent families. Single parents have the lowest home ownership rates and the highest debt ratios. Children in sole parent families are often exposed to persistent poverty and constrained upward mobility. Of registered births in 2015, 5% had no recorded father details and a further 15% had fathers living at a different home address to the mother. Of all babies born in 2015, 17.5% (10,697) were reliant on a main benefit

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