In the past three decades, incarceration has become an increasingly powerful force for
reproducing and reinforcing social inequalities. A new wave of sociological research details …

Former prisoners are at high risk of economic insecurity due to the challenges they face in
finding employment and to the difficulties of securing and maintaining public assistance …

With evidence comprising three years of ethnographic research in child support courts and
125 in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated fathers, the author shows how criminal …

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 …

As the American imprisonment rate has risen, researchers have become increasingly
concerned about the implications of mass imprisonment for family life. The authors extend …

This paper surveys some of the main strands in the recent literature on the economics of
divorce, with a focus on US studies. We begin with a discussion of changes over time in the …

This qualitative study examines low-income African-American fathers' perceptions of their
parenting role and the strategies they employ to bring up children in poor urban …

Employment has been cited as one of the most effective protections against recidivism for
formerly incarcerated people; however, job seekers with criminal records face barriers to …

We argue that child support, the central program specifically targeting single-parent families,
should increase financial resources for children living with a single parent, with a secondary …

The percentage of children in the United States living apart from their biological father has
increased, while public assistance for single mothers has diminished. This has resulted in a …