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Published: 09 January 2020
Fig. 5 Proportions of children born to a biological mother (panel a) and father (panel b) in a same-sex marriage in Sweden with different constellations of registered parents. Data for the first biological child to a Swedish-born mother or father within five years of same-sex marriage formation More
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Published: 07 February 2020
Fig. 3 Predicted probability of being stunted by married biological fathers’ education and stepfathers’ education among children under 5 years old, born between 1998 and 2017, in 30 African countries. Differences in the marginal effects are calculated from adjusted regression results presented More
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Published: 07 February 2020
Fig. 4 Predicted probability of being underweight by married biological fathers’ education and stepfathers’ education among children under 5 years old, born between 1998 and 2017, in 30 African countries. Differences in the marginal effects calculated from adjusted regression results presented More
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Demography (1990) 27 (4): 499–517.
Published: 01 November 1990
... or other potential father figures. I document the extent to which (1) substantial proportions of children born to younger mothers never have had a biological father residing in the home, (2) “net” levels of fathers’ absence at various postbirth points mask significant “gross” flows of fathers in and out...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 811–833.
Published: 27 May 2015
...Matthijs Kalmijn Abstract The transmission of individual characteristics and behaviors across generations has frequently been studied in the social sciences. For a growing number of children, however, the biological father was present in the household for only part of the time; and for many...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1345–1356.
Published: 03 July 2014
... out of wedlock. Data came from the National Survey of Family Growth on 5,255 children born nonmaritally. By age 15, 29 % of children born nonmaritally experienced a biological-father marriage, and 36 % experienced a stepfather marriage. Stepfather marriages occurred much later in a child’s life—one...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 153–182.
Published: 29 January 2015
... distinguish partners by biological parentage of the firstborn child. Net of controls for education, race/ethnicity, and family background, single mothers who enter into stable marriages with either a biological father or stepfather experience significant wealth advantages over time (more than $2,500 per year...
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 333–349.
Published: 01 May 2003
... the child is born before the mother’s first marriage. A competing-risks analysis shows that the positive effect of a son is stronger for marriages to the child’s biological father than for other marriages. We find no significant effect of child gender on the mother’s remarriage probabilities when...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 23–47.
Published: 04 January 2012
... with their child’s biological father experience declines in material hardship and that those who transition to cohabitation or marriage with another man exhibit modest declines in both material hardship and depression. Mothers who exit cohabiting or marital relationships encounter decreases in perceived social...
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 February 2006
... Population Association of America 2006 2006 Behavioral Problem Family Type Biological Father Biological Child Nonresidential Father References Amato , P.R. , & Keith , B. ( 1991 ). Parental Divorce and the Well-being of Children: A Meta-Analysis . Psychological Bulletin...
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 181–204.
Published: 01 February 2010
... ’ contact with their nonresident biological children. We find that father involvement drops sharply after relationships between unmarried parents end. Mothers’ transitions into new romantic partnerships and new parenting roles are associated with larger declines in involvement than fathers’ transitions...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 857–880.
Published: 12 April 2014
... women’s economic independence by reducing the need to be in the least stable type of partnerships. Our results also show the potential importance of distinguishing between biological and social fathers. In the 35 years since Hannan et al. ( 1977 ) used evidence from a random-assignment experiment...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 101–124.
Published: 28 December 2011
...Kara Joyner; H. Elizabeth Peters; Kathryn Hynes; Asia Sikora; Jamie Rubenstein Taber; Michael S. Rendall Abstract Researchers continue to question fathers’ willingness to report their biological children in surveys and the ability of surveys to adequately represent fathers. To address...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 267–277.
Published: 01 May 1989
... birth history and who lived in the household. A biological child of a father was operationalized as a biological child of the father's spouse who was born after the marriage to that spouse, or a child born before the parent's current marriage if the father had a prior marriage and if the child...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1771–1800.
Published: 25 October 2016
... parents will experience the entrance or exit of a biological or social (nonbiological) father during childhood (Bzostek et al. 2012 ). The increasing likelihood that a child will experience one or more parental relationship transitions has spurred work investigating the associations among family...
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 287–297.
Published: 01 August 1999
... care. Our findings suggest that divorce has deleterious effects on intergenerational transfers, particularly for elderly fathers. Remarriage further reduces exchange. Our results reveal that parents engage in lower levels of transfers with stepchildren relative to biological children. Moreover...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 445–473.
Published: 07 February 2020
...Fig. 3 Predicted probability of being stunted by married biological fathers’ education and stepfathers’ education among children under 5 years old, born between 1998 and 2017, in 30 African countries. Differences in the marginal effects are calculated from adjusted regression results presented...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 1–26.
Published: 25 November 2015
... investments of time from stepfathers compared with children residing with biological fathers when there is a half-sibling in the household. Finally, emotional and health resources are also selection factors into family complexity and potential mechanisms explaining why family complexity shapes child well...
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Demography (1969) 6 (2): 141–149.
Published: 01 May 1969
... to the father’s 65th birthday, and that all women were biologically capable of having the same number of children were reported earlier. A model identical to one presented earlier but assuming women to be of variable fecundity is presented here; the results are quite similar. Also, the results of models assuming...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 104–121.
Published: 01 March 1968
... son when the father reaches his sixty-fifth birthday. If the number of living sons they already have is less than the necessary number, they go on to have another child. If the number of living sons they already have is more than the necessary number, the wife 8 For discussions of the biological...