We review research on families and health published between 2000 and 2009 and highlight
key themes and findings from innovative, methodologically rigorous studies. Whereas …

Family ties have wide‐ranging consequences for health, for better and for worse. This
decade review uses a life course perspective to frame significant advances in research on …

Childhood health is associated with a wide variety of outcomes throughout the life course,
from ongoing physical and mental health to disability, mortality, and socioeconomic status …

Background We examine the association between family structure and children's health care
utilization, barriers to health care access, health, and schooling and cognitive outcomes and …

Although a number of studies examined the implications of marital disruption for adolescent
well-being, few studied the implications of marital relationship quality on health outcomes for …

Twenty years ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
issued a request for proposals that resulted in the National Survey of Families and …

Introduction Families are the most proximal and powerful context for the development,
promotion, and disruption of health of individuals across the life course. Despite families' …

This study uses data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income
Dynamics to examine family structure's associations with adolescent physical health …

This decade's literature on families with children and adolescents can be broadly organized
around the implications for youth of family statuses (eg, family structure) and family …

Abstract In the United States and across the globe, demographic trends have coalesced to
produce an increasingly diverse set of family structures, fueling international interest in …