Child Poverty in America

Stephen Shames

Alicia Patterson Foundation

Philadelphia - Brian Van Horn, 12, looks out the window of the Kensington area house where he lives with his mother and three sisters. A child raised by his mother alone is four times as likely to be poor as a child with both parents at home.

Stephen Shames, "Child Poverty in America," in POYi Archive, Item #13587, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/13587 (accessed April 20, 2025).