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DATE: SUNDAY, July 15, 1990                   TAG: 9007150194
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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MOST BLACK CHILDREN LIVE WITH 1 PARENT

More than half the nation's 9.8 million black children under 18 years old and nearly a third of the 7 million Hispanic children lived with only one parent in 1989, according to a Census Bureau report.

Among the 51.1 million white children, however, four out of five lived with both parents.

Since 1970, the proportion of black children living with both parents has declined to 38 percent from 58.5 percent, according to the report released Thursday; for Hispanic children, the drop was to 67 percent from 77.7 percent.

The mother was present as well for about half the black children living with grandparents, the report said; 38 percent had neither of their parents present. - The New York Times 


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