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Health Insurance and Family Structure: The Case of Adolescents in Skipped-Generation Families

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Toshiko Kaneda

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Since 1970, both the number and proportion of children being parented by a grandparent without the help of a parent has increased substantially. The increase in skipped-generation households has generated much concern from policy makers because such households are, on average, disadvantaged compared with most other household types. One important challenge facing grandparents with parenting responsibilities is securing health insurance for their dependent grandchildren. In this study, the authors investigate the extent to which grandparents raising their grandchildren were able to secure health insurance for their dependent grandchildren. They find that adolescents living in skipped-generation families in 1995 were more often uninsured, more often publicly insured, and less often privately insured compared with adolescents in other family types. Even after controlling for income, work status, and education, adolescents in skipped-generation families were still more likely to have public insurance and less likely to have private insurance compared with other adolescents.

Medical Care Research and Review, Vol. 59, No. 2, 146-165 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1077558702059002002


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