Poverty Status of Millennial Custodial Parents VS Generation X at the Same Age

Figure 6 shows that 36% of millennial custodial parents in the child support program were poor in 2017. Another 32% had family incomes that fell between 100% and 200% of the poverty threshold, referred to as living near poverty. Thus, 68% of millennial custodial parents in the child support program lived in poverty or near poverty in 2017. Generation X was the only generation of custodial parents who had a significantly lower rate of living in poverty or near poverty than the millennials in 2017. That year, 50% of Generation X custodial parents lived in poverty (25%) or near poverty (25%).

Are millennial custodial parents poorer than Generation X custodial parents were at the same age? Other research has examined whether millennials are poorer than earlier generations, and it generally concludes that they are.5 Figure 6 shows that when Generation X custodial parents were the same age as millennial custodial parents (between the ages of 22 and 37 in 2001), 34% of them were poor and 28% lived near poverty. Although these figures are somewhat lower than the figures for millennials (36% and 32%), their differences are not statistically significant. Thus, we cannot conclude from this analysis that millennial custodial parents in the child support program are more likely to live in poverty or near poverty than Generation X custodial parents when they were the same age.

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