{"id":63603,"date":"2010-08-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2010\/08\/11\/iii-household-structure-mixed-families\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:11:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:11:54","slug":"iii-household-structure-mixed-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2010\/08\/11\/iii-household-structure-mixed-families\/","title":{"rendered":"III. Household Structure; Mixed Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3509\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/08\/2010-us-born-children-06.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"290\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unauthorized immigrants are much more likely than either legal immigrants or native-born adults to live in a household with a spouse and a child or children.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Pew Hispanic estimates, some 45% of unauthorized immigrants live with a spouse (or cohabiting partner) and child or children, compared with 34% of legal immigrant adults and 21% of U.S.-born adults. Here again, the chief reasons are that unauthorized immigrants tend to be younger and have higher rates of fertility than other adults.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One byproduct of these demographic patterns is that a substantial share of the undocumented population of this country lives in a so-called mixed-status family\u2014that is, a family with at least one unauthorized immigrant parent and at least one U.S. citizen child.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a 2009 Pew Hispanic Center report[3. numoffset=&#8221;3&#8243; Passel, Jeffrey and D\u2019Vera Cohn, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/hispanic\/2009\/04\/14\/a-portrait-of-unauthorized-immigrants-in-the-united-states\/\">A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States<\/a>,\u201d Pew Hispanic Center, April 14, 2009.] (which was based on 2008 census data), 37% of all adult unauthorized immigrants were parents of children who are U.S. citizens. 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