Internet Table 2. Historical Living Arrangements of Children Source: U.S. Census Bureau Internet Release date: April 13, 2001 (In thousands) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Year |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Living arrangements | 1880 /1 1900 /1 1910 /1 1920 /1 1940 /1 1950 /1 1960 /1 1970 /2 1980 /2 1990 /2 1996 /3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Children 22,027 30,784 34,997 39,535 40,435 46,506 64,586 69,162 63,427 64,137 71,494 Living with -- Two parents 18,359 25,916 29,880 34,122 34,404 40,365 55,885 58,939 48,624 46,503 50,685 One parent 2,332 3,172 3,389 3,742 4,178 4,144 6,644 8,200 12,466 15,867 18,165 Mother only 1,770 2,310 2,470 2,588 3,186 3,452 5,820 7,452 11,406 13,874 16,340 Father only 562 862 919 1,154 992 692 824 748 1,060 1,993 1,825 Neither parent 1,337 1,695 1,729 1,672 1,852 1,998 2,057 2,023 2,337 1,767 2,644 Percent living with -- Two parents 83.3 84.2 85.4 86.3 85.1 86.8 86.5 85.2 76.7 72.5 70.9 One parent 10.6 10.3 9.7 9.5 10.3 8.9 10.3 11.9 19.7 24.7 25.4 Mother only 8.0 7.5 7.1 6.5 7.9 7.4 9.0 10.8 18.0 21.6 22.9 Father only 2.6 2.8 2.6 2.9 2.5 1.5 1.3 1.1 1.7 3.1 2.6 Neither parent 6.1 5.5 4.9 4.2 4.6 4.3 3.2 2.9 3.7 2.8 3.7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ Source: Data for these years come from the Public Use Micro Samples collected and made available by IPUMS, Historical Census Projects. 2/ Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, Historical Table CH-1 (available on the internet) 3/ Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation, Wave 2