cultural poverty,”Some social scientists suggest that Americans of all ethnicbackgrounds may suffer from this, meaning thatpoverty forces coping strategies that hinder social advancement. For example, 23% of children in Euro-American and 17% of children inAsian-American families lived in low-income, single-parent homeswhile 65% of African-American, 49% of Native American

cultural poverty,”Some social scientists suggest that Americans of all ethnicbackgrounds may suffer from this, meaning thatpoverty forces coping strategies that hinder social advancement. For example, 23% of children in Euro-American and 17% of children inAsian-American families lived in low-income, single-parent homeswhile 65% of African-American, 49% of Native American

and 36% ofHispanic children did.”