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Biological Children, Adopted Children, And Stepchildren Are Identified In Census 2000 By The Answer To The Question

“How is this person related to person ?”
 
Person 1 is always the householder: someone who owns or rents the home.
The results shown in this report reflect only people who were identified as children of the householder and were living in the household at the time of the census,rather than all children currently living with their parents.

For example, if a married couple lived in the household of one of their parents, their children would be reported as the grandchildren of the householder. Because of situations like this, Census 2000 data cannot provide a comprehensive count of all adopted children andstepchildren in the United States.

At the same time, national-level data on adopted children and stepchildren are rare, and the large sample size of Census 2000 makes it the most complete data source on the characteristics of these children and their families and households. The Other Sources of Data section of this report describes several other sources of data on adoption and adopted children.

Because people may have different understandings of what constitutes an “adoptive” or “step” arent-child elationship, Census 2000 data include a variety of types of adoptive and step relationships. These data do not define whether an adoption was of a relative or a nonrelative, or whether the child was adopted through a public
agency.

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