National Center for Family and Marriage Research Family Profiles

Document Type

Report

Abstract

In recent decades, a growing share of children reside in grandparent-headed households (Wu, 2018). This Family Profile uses data from the child’s perspective in the American Community Survey to chart grandchildren living in grandparent- headed households since 2008. Here, we focus on differentiating between multigenerational grandparent-headed households (parent present) and skipped-generation grandparent-headed households (no parent present). We then describe variation in these grandparent-headed households by minor children’s age, household economic disadvantage, and race/ethnicity. This profile is an update of FP-18-01 & FP-21-07 and the first in our updated series on grandparenthood.

Publication Date

2024

Publisher

National Center for Family and Marriage Research

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