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 …

Children who experience multiple transitions in family structure may face worse
developmental outcomes than children raised in stable, two-parent families, and perhaps …

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 …

Using data from Waves 1 and 2 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, I
extend prior research on family transitions and adolescent well-being by examining the …

Provides graduate students in the social sciences with the basic skills they need to estimate,
interpret, present, and publish basic regression models using contemporary standards. Key …

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 …

We used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine how couple
relationship quality and parental engagement are linked over children's early years—when …

We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Adolescent
Health and Academic Achievement Study to estimate how parents' union dissolution …

Researchers largely have relied on a measure of family structure to describe children's living
arrangements, but this approach captures only the child's relationship to the parent (s) …

Using data collected from 10,511 kindergarten children and their parents from the Early
Childhood Longitudinal Study—Kindergarten Cohort, this study examines child well‐being …