Food Security in Households with Children
- Alex Choi
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min read
85.2 percent of households with children were food secure in 2020.
Household food insecurity affected 14.8 percent of households with children in 2020. In some of these food-insecure households only adults were food insecure, while in others children also experienced food insecurity.
In 7.2 percent of households with children, only adults were food insecure.
Both children and adults were food insecure in 7.6 percent of households with children (2.9 million households).
Children are usually protected from substantial reductions in food intake even in households with very low food security. Nevertheless, in about 0.8 percent of households with children (322,000 households), one or more child also experienced reduced food intake and disrupted eating patterns at some time during the year.
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