Are children in single-parent families at greater risk of not having private health insurance?
• Approximately one-quarter of children in the United States live in single-parent families. • Roughly one in five children (19.8%) in single-parent families were uninsured during the first half of 1996, compared with 13.6% of children in two-parent families. • Nearly three-quarters (73.7%) of children in two-parent families had private insurance, compared with only 38.7% of children in single-parent households. • Children in single-parent families were three times more likely to have public insurance than children in two-parent families (41.5% compared to 12.7%). Select Figure 3 (5 KB).
