2013
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2013-0988
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Disparities in Health Insurance Among Children With Same-Sex Parents

Abstract: WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Health insurance is associated with improved health for children, but gay and lesbian parents face barriers to adding their children to private health insurance. Little is known about the extent to which insurance disparities exist for children with same-sex parents. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:Children with same-sex parents are less likely to have private health insurance. When children live in states in which legal same-sex marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships, or second-paren… Show more

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“…For example, same-sex couples with children have lower annual household income ($63,900 vs. $74,000) and higher poverty rates (29 % vs. 11 %) than their different-sex counterparts (Ash and Badgett 2006; Badgett 2001; Burgoyne 2012; Gates 2013; Williams 2012). Same-sex couples with children are also less likely to have health insurance (Bass and Warehime 2011; Gonzales and Blewett 2013). As a result of socioeconomic disparities related to the sex composition of parents, children with same-sex parents have fewer health supports than otherwise similar children raised by a man and a woman.…”
Section: Exploring the Role Of Family Socioeconomic Resourcesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…For example, same-sex couples with children have lower annual household income ($63,900 vs. $74,000) and higher poverty rates (29 % vs. 11 %) than their different-sex counterparts (Ash and Badgett 2006; Badgett 2001; Burgoyne 2012; Gates 2013; Williams 2012). Same-sex couples with children are also less likely to have health insurance (Bass and Warehime 2011; Gonzales and Blewett 2013). As a result of socioeconomic disparities related to the sex composition of parents, children with same-sex parents have fewer health supports than otherwise similar children raised by a man and a woman.…”
Section: Exploring the Role Of Family Socioeconomic Resourcesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, evidence has suggested that when different-sex couples with children are separated by marital status, same-sex couples actually come in between different-sex married couples and different-sex cohabiting couples in terms of income and educational attainment, although less clearly so in terms of health insurance (Badgett 2001; Black et al 2000, 2007b; Gonzales and Blewett 2013; Heck et al 2006; Williams 2012). Unfortunately, how separating same-sex couples by marital status (i.e., same-sex married and same-sex cohabiting) might affect the “rank ordering” of different-sex and same-sex couples on socioeconomic resources remains unclear at the population level.…”
Section: Exploring the Role Of Family Socioeconomic Resourcesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While not focal to our review, we also propose that the economic and legal disadvantages of unrecognized family relationships (e.g., lack of health insurance, Gonzales and Blewett, 2013) and, conversely, increased legal and financial security of the family (e.g., Goldberg and Kuvalanka, 2012;Malmquist et al, 2020) impact children's health and well-being. This robust association between parental socioeconomic status and child health is outlined in detail elsewhere (Repetti et al, 2002;Conger et al, 2010).…”
Section: F9: Child Outcomesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…C. Buchmueller & Carpenter, 2012; Gonzales & Blewett, 2013). Ash and Badgett estimated that universal partner employer-based insurance could substantially reduce the uninsured rate of unmarried same- or different-sex partners (2006).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Buchmueller and Carpenter found that a California law requiring private employers to offer same-sex domestic partners the same fringe benefits offered to married couples did not have an impact on health insurance coverage between gay and heterosexual men but increased coverage differentially for lesbians relative to heterosexual women (2012). Finally, Gonzales and Blewett (2013, 2014) documented smaller gaps in private coverage for children of same-sex partners as well as narrower EBI disparities between same- and different-sex partners in states that recognized same-sex domestic partnerships, civil unions, or marriage. These studies examined the impacts of a single policy such as same-sex domestic partnership or a combination of policies that recognized same-sex relationships.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%