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Black and White Kids More Likely to Avoid Poverty and Incarceration in Two-Parent Families

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Thursday, June 17, 2021

They are almost twice as likely to graduate from college if raised in a stable two-parent family, compared to a single-parent family.

Key Points: 
  • They are almost twice as likely to graduate from college if raised in a stable two-parent family, compared to a single-parent family.
  • Black children do better than white children when it comes to poverty, prison, and college when they are raised in intact, two-parent home and white children are raised in a single-parent family.
  • Specifically:
    36% of young black women from intact, two-parent families have graduated from college compared to just 28% of young white women from single-parent families.
  • 14% of young black men from intact, two-parent families have been incarcerated, compared to 18% of young white men from single-parent families.