Less than half of teens living with two biological parents

Surveying of 600 fifteen-year-old children of participants in the Dunedin Study, offers a view of what modern kiwi teens' family homes look like. 47 per cent of the kids were living with both of their biological parents at age fifteen, and a proportion of those kids hadn't always had that care arrangement. 94 per cent of kids had moved house at least once, and over half had moved more than five times. The authors say that this data shows that many young New Zealanders’ living arrangements are complex and changeable, and conventional ideas about family structure should be re-examined.