Describe the reasons for high poverty among children in the United States
What will be an ideal response?
Children living in large families are especially likely to live in poverty. This is because economic resources must be spread more thinly in a large family and because the mother is less able to work outside the home when she has many children. A major reason for the persistently high poverty among children is changes in the family structure in the United States—higher divorce rates, more children born to unmarried women, and more female-headed families.
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a. true b. false
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