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 …

Many children experience multiple family transitions as their parents move into and out of
romantic relationships. The instability hypothesis is a stress mediation model that suggests …

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 …

Abstract Immigration to the United States presents both challenges and opportunities that
affect students' academic achievement. Using a 5-year longitudinal, mixed-methods …

In response to dramatic increases in imprisonment, a burgeoning literature considers the
consequences of incarceration for family life, almost always documenting negative …

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 use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N= 1,975) to examine the
association between mothers' partnership changes and parenting behavior during the first 5 …

This paper uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N= 2,098) to
examine differences in the parenting practices of four types of resident fathers, defined by …

Historically, there have always been stepfamilies, but until the early 1970s, they remained
largely unnoticed by social scientists. Research interest in stepfamilies followed shortly after …

While demographers continue to document the notable changes in family structure that have
occurred in recent decades, little is known about the quality of parental investment that …