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Abstract
Over 469 thousand households in the U.S. experienced very low food security among children, a severe condition characterized by reductions in food intake due to an inability to afford enough food. But food insecurity is not simply about economic resources. There exists a paradox in which some poor households with children are food secure while some non-poor households with children are food insecure. This study moves beyond a singular focus on income and considers how the family context may protect or generate risk of food insecurity for children. The goals of the proposed project were to: 1) to provide a detailed profile of an understudied group, households with children experiencing very low food security; 2) to consider the food security paradox—households that are poor but food secure, and households that are food insecure but non-poor, and 3) to examine how family context (structure and parental time allocations) is related to food security among households with children.
Document Type
Research Paper
Publication Date
10-2012
Discussion Paper Number
DP 2012-07
Repository Citation
Balistreri, Kelly, "Family Structure, Work Patterns and Time Allocations: Potential Mechanisms of Food Insecurity among Children" (2012). University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series. 33.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ukcpr_papers/33
