Children of Immigrants: Family and Parental Characteristics
The data report, published online in July, reveals the family circumstances of the children of immigrants, including factors like family structure and parental employment.
Using recent census data and other sources, the report finds that 23 percent of U.S. children live with at least one foreign-born parent. Among children of immigrants, 52 percent live with two-foreign born parents while 24 percent live with a single foreign-born parent. Children from the Middle East and South Asia are most likely to live with two foreign-born parents (at 73 percent) whereas Children of Central American origin are the most likely to live with a single foreign-born parent (at 38 percent). The report also finds that immigrant families exhibit high work ethic; ninety-two percent of children of immigrants and 89 percent of children of natives live in families where the adults worked at least 1,800 hours combined for the year.
The report by the Urban Institute is the second in a series that profiles children of immigrants. The first brief highlighted the immigrant population’s rapid growth and the subsequent increase in the children of immigrants.
