This article reviews areas of advancement over the past decade in our understanding of
remarriage and stepfamilies and suggests promising new directions for future work …

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 …

In recent decades, social work and other social science research disciplines have become
increasingly reliant on large secondary data sets, which have increased in both number and …

Family structure remains a dominant explanation for understanding racial inequality in
poverty. Yet, empirical studies show family structure does not fully account for this …

Over the past decade, the linkages between marriage and child well‐being have attracted
the attention of researchers and policy makers alike. Children's living arrangements have …

Although children's family lives are diverse, the measurement of children's living
arrangements has lagged, focusing on the relationships of children to parents while largely …

This paper uses the 1995 and 2002 waves of the National Survey of Family Growth to
examine recent trends in cohabitation in the United States. We find increases in both the …

We use data from three waves of the Fragile Families Study (N= 2,111) to examine the
prevalence and effects of mothers' partnership changes between birth and age 3 on …

Objective To assess whether an indicator of structural racism—the legacy of slavery—
impacts racial inequality in poverty among individuals within the same family structure …

" This volume is an excellent overview of the dimensions and sources of American poverty.
John Iceland combines statistical data, theoretical arguments, and historical information in a …