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 Family Structure Following decades of decline, the proportion of children living with both parents has remained relatively stable over the last decade, dropping modestly from 69 percent in 1995 to 67 percent in 2006... > View Indicator Family Meals More than six out of ten foreign-born adolescents ages 12 to 17 ate with their families six to seven days a week in 2003, compared with four out of ten adolescents who are native-born with native-born parents... > View Indicator Percentage of Births to Unmarried Women The percentage of births to unmarried women has steadily increased in the past few decades, from 5.3 percent in 1960 to 32.2 percent in 1995 and more slowly to 35.8 percent in 2004. Over a quarter of births to woman ages 25 to 29 (26.4 percent) and over half of births to woman ages 20 to 24 (53.2 percent) were to unmarried women in 2003, the latest year for which such estimates are available... > View Indicator Reading to Young Children Young children of well-educated mothers are much more likely to be read to every day by a family member than are children of less educated mothers.... > View Indicator Parental Involvement in Schools The majority of students in all grades have parents who have attended some meetings or events in their school, but rates of parental involvement decline at higher grade levels...> View Indicator Heavy Drinking Among Parents Heavy drinking among fathers declined slightly between 2003 and 2004, with the percentage of fathers who reported heavy drinking at least once per month decreasing from 14 percent to 12 percent...> View Indicator Parental Smoking The percentage of parents of children under age 18 who report being current smokers declined overall between 2000 and 2004, from 25 percent to 21 percent... > View Indicator Parental Symptoms of Depression Twenty percent of parents living in households receiving welfare showed symptoms of depression in the year 2004, compared with 4 percent of parents in families that did not receive welfare...> View Indicator Parental Education Nearly one-half of Hispanic children ages 6-18 had parents who lacked a high school degree in 1999, compared to less than 10 percent of white non-Hispanic children...> View Indicator Child Maltreatment Among maltreated children, the percentage reported as neglected--as opposed to abused--increased from 49 percent in 1990 to 63 percent in 2005, while the percentage reported as sexually abused declined from 17 percent to 9 percent... > View Indicator Attitudes Toward Spanking In 2004, 79 percent of 18 to 24 year old females agreed that a child sometimes needs a "good hard spanking" compared with 61 percent of 45 to 65 year old females... > View Indicator Parental Warmth and Affection Most mothers and fathers report that they hug their children and tell their children that they love them every day, with daily hugs as high as 90 percent or more for the youngest children... > View Indicator Child Support Receipt Among custodial parents with a child support award, the percentage who received a full payment of all support owed them in the previous year increased from 37 percent in 1994 to 46 percent in 1998, and was 45 percent in 2003... > View Indicator Regular Bedtime and Mealtime Young children from low income families are much less likely than those from high income families to have a regular bedtime and a regular mealtime. In 2000, 47 percent of those with annual family incomes at or below $17,500 had both the same bedtime and the same mealtime every day, compared with 70 percent for those with family incomes exceeding $60,000... > View Indicator Foster Care The number of American children in foster care rose steadily through most of the 1990s, peaking in 1999 at 567,000, and has declined since then to 513,000 in 2005... > View Indicator
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