two-parent households
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household
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˈhaʊs.həʊld/us/ˈhaʊs.hoʊld/
a group of people, often a family, who ...
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(Definition ofhouseholdfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Other adults who happen to be present in atwo-parenthouseholdwill not count.
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Apart from this, there is no consistent evidence that the financial requirements of a lone-parent household in bringing up a child are different from those of atwo-parenthousehold.
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During the period 1868-1871, however, just as many children came from two-parent households with 2-4 children.
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Furthermore, while two-parent households are still the most prevalent, there have been a number of significant changes within such households, in particular as regards the employment of women.
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Sweet (1974) tabulated the proportion of children in two-parent households who were step-children, in relation to income levels, for each of eight age- and race-specific samples.
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The premium that he mentioned is not to give them an advantage, but simply to raise them to the same economic level as two-parent households.
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Does he or does he not accept that lone parents incur more costs than two-parent households?
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Then there are the employed—the able-bodied, the two-parent households—who are the "haves" to varying degrees.
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These returns do not distinguish between one and two-parent households.
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Many parents who work atypical hours do so out of choice, because in two-parent households it often fits in well with parents' lifestyles and how they care for their children.
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Some people think that pushing more money toward two-parent families in order to boost marriage is sensible and would influence people towards marriage and two-parent households.
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Third, ending a marriage increases the likelihood of becoming asset poor, so single-parent households are more likely to become asset poor than two-parent households.
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There are two tables, the first for two-parent households, the second for single-parent families.
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