• Children living with two unmarried parents were more likely to live below the poverty line in 2019 (38.1%) than children with married parents (7.5%).
  
• Among the 4.0% of children under age 18 who did not live with a parent, 53.2% lived with a grandparent in 2019.
  
• In 2019, 69.7% of children lived with parents who were native-born, while 26.3% lived with at least one foreign-born parent.
• Nationally, in 2018, 13.2% of households with children under age 18 contained members of a different race or Hispanic origin. This percentage varied by state, with the West having the most states with a percentage higher than the national average.
• The percentage of children living in multigenerational households increased across all racial and ethnic groups between 2008 and 2018.
• Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander children were the most likely to live in a multigenerational household, at 25.3% in 2018. White, non-Hispanic children were the least likely to live in a multigenerational household, at 7.8%.
  

The surveys used in this report differ in their data-collection methods, universes, editing, and weighting. More information about the surveys is available in the Source of the Data and Accuracy of the Estimates sections of the report.

More information on the living arrangements of children can be found on our Families and Living Arrangements webpage.

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