This brief examines the disparity in resources available to children in different types of families and different parts of the country, using data from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF), which collected data from about 44,000 households in 1997. Economic well-being among children varies substantially, according to the NSAF, both by type of family and by state. The most conspicuous finding is that children in two-parent families have almost three times the resources available to them as do children in one-parent families. There are great differences in median family income by state, with states in the South tending to have lower median family income than states in the Northeast or Midwest. States with lower average incomes available to children naturally tend to have higher child poverty rates, and these are also the states that tend to have the most inequality in child economic well-being. Findings suggest that even these states may have resources that can be brought to bear on the needs of their poorer children. One option might be introducing or increasing an earned income tax credit. (SLD)