Over the past four decades, income inequality has increased and family structures have
diversified. We argue that family structure has become an important mechanism for the …

This chapter reviews the conceptual and empirical linkages between poverty and parenting,
focuses on the economic dimension of poverty at the family rather than the neighborhood …

In this article, I argue that the trends associated with the second demographic transition are
following two trajectories and leading to greater disparities in children's resources. Whereas …

How have recent changes in US family structure affected the cognitive, social, and emotional
well-being of the nation's children? Paul Amato examines the effects of family formation on …

We investigate the gap in math and science achievement of third‐and fourth‐graders who
live with a single parent versus those who live with two parents in 11 countries. The United …

This chapter focuses on children in cohabiting-couple households for two reasons. First,
cohabitation represents a two-adult living arrangement that has become a prominent part of …

The present study examined the association between unmarried fathers' prenatal
involvement and fathers' engagement later in the child's life. The study sample consisted of …

▪ Abstract This paper evaluates a burgeoning literature on the effects of the 1996 welfare
reform bill. Our goal is to shift the debate from the current preoccupation with declining …

In this article, we use data from the first two waves of the Fragile Families and Child
Wellbeing Study to examine the effects of child gender on father involvement and to …

African Americans have the lowest marriage rate of any racial and ethnic group in America.
Although the low marriage rate among African Americans has been largely examined …