Immigration and Changing Patterns of Extended Family Household Structure in the United States: 1970-1990  

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JENNIFER E. GLICK ; JENNIFER V. W. V AN HOOK ; Bean, Frank D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 59 no. 1 (Feb. 1997), page 177-191.
Topik: extended family; immigration; household compotition

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The long-term downward trend in the percentage of extended family households in the US. came to a halt during the 1980s, a change that coincided with a growing gap between immigrants and natives in the percentages of households adopting extended family structures Using 1970, 1980. and 1990 census data, this research assesses the degree to which changes in the volume and composition firm of immigration have contributed both to the and increase in the proportion of the U.S. population residing in extended family households and to the widening gap between immigrants and natives. Our result demonstrate that immigration explains on a little of the total increase in extended Living arrangements in the total population, but that the increasing differential between immigrants and natives during the 1980s resulted from increaser in horizontally extended households among immigrants Mexican, Guatemalan, and Salvadoran immigrants accounted for most of this increase, primarily because of increases in the proportion of young, single adults living with relatives and increases in proverty rates amnong immigrants from these countries.

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