What are the family characteristics of low-income infants and toddlers?
Parents’ Education 6 Enlarge Figure 8: Infants and toddlers living in low-income and poor families by parents’ education, 2008 Higher levels of parents’ education decrease the likelihood that a child will live in a low-income or poor family. Yet well over one-third of low-income and nearly 30 percent of poor infants and toddlers have a parent with at least some college. • 87 percent of infants and toddlers with parents who have less than a high school degree – 1.4 million – live in low-income families. • 69 percent of infants and toddlers with parents who have no more than a high school degree – 2.1 million – live in low-income families. • 26 percent of infants and toddlers with at least one parent who has some college or more education – 2.1 million – live in low-income families. Parents’ Employment 7 Enlarge Figure 9: Infants and toddlers living in low-income and poor families by parents’ employment and education, 2008 Although infants and toddlers with a full-time, year-round employ
