Research Works Cited

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“America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2013: Family Groups (FG Table Series).” United

States Census Bureau, https://www.census.gov/topics/families/families-and-households.html. Accessed 12 February 2017.

“America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2015: Family Groups (FG Table Series).” United

States Census Bureau, https://www.census.gov/topics/families/families-and-households.html. Accessed 10 February 2017.

“Births to Unmarried Women.” Child Trends, Dec. 2015,

http://www.childtrends.org/indicators/births-to-unmarried-women/. Accessed 12 February 2017.

“Births to Unmarried Women.” Kids Count Data Center,

www.datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/7-births-to-unmarried-women?loc=l&loct=2#detailed/2/2-52/false/869,36,868,867,133/any/257,258. Accessed 14 February 2017.

Coleman-Jensen, Alisha, et al. “Household Food Security in the United States in 2015.” USDA, Sept. 2016, www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/err215_summary.pdf. Accessed 15 February 2017.

“Statistical Supplement to Household Food Security in the United States in 2015.” USDA, Sept. 2016, www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publicatins/ap072.pdf?v=42622. Accessed 15 February 2017.

“Expenditures on Children by Families, 2013.” USDA, Aug. 2014, www.cnpp.usda.gov/sites

defaults/files/expenditures_on_children_by_families/crc2013.pdf. Accessed 12

February 2017.

“Household Relationship and Living Arrangements of Children Under 18 Years, by Age and Sex, Table C2: 2014.” United States Census Bureau,

https://www.census.gov/topics/families/families-and-households.html. Accessed 12 February 2017.

“One-Parent Unmarried Family Groups with Own Children Under 18, By Marital Status of the

Reference Person: Table FG6: 2013.” United States Census Bureau,

https://www.census.gov/topics/families/families-and-households.html. Accessed 15 February 2017.

Shaefer, H. Luke and Kathryn Edin. “The Rise of Extreme Poverty in the United States.” Stanford, www.web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/pdf/pathways/summer_2014/Pathways_summer-2014-ShaeferEdin.pdf. Accessed 13 February 2017.

“Single Mothers Statistics.” Single Mother Guide, 17 Sept. 2016, www.singlemotherguide.com/

single-mother-statistics/. Accessed 10 February 2017.

“The Characteristics and Needs of Families Experiencing Homelessness.” The Center on Family Homelessness, www.files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED535499.pdf. Accessed 14 February 2017.

“The State of the Nation’s Housing: 2011.” Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard

University, www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/jchs.harvard.edu/files/son2011.pdf. Accessed

10 February 2017.

Email interviews with 4 single mothers living in the USA. March-April 2017.