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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 181–197.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Susan D. Stewart Abstract This article reports on a study of the effect of stepchildren (children from previous unions) on coupleś fertility intentions and childbearing behavior using longitudinal data from the National Survey of Families and Households. The results indicated that stepchildren...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 229–260.
Published: 07 December 2018
... stepkin, or cover only older adults. In this study, we use new data on family structure and transfers in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to describe the prevalence and numbers of stepparents and stepchildren for adults of all ages and to characterize the relationship between having stepkin...
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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 (2022) 59 (5): 1821–1842.
Published: 01 October 2022
... in biological families. Moreover, among stepfamilies, ties are not uniformly stronger with biological children relative to stepchildren; differences emerge only in more complex families when each partner has biological children from previous relationships. Our findings challenge the view that ties with older...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 267–277.
Published: 01 May 1989
.... , & Curtis , R. L. ( 1975 ). Stepfathers and stepchildren: An explanatory analysis from two national surveys . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 39 , 526 – 536 . 10.2307/350516 Demography, Vol. 26, No.2, May 1989 Married-Couple Families With Step, Adopted, and Biological Children Jeanne E...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 799–821.
Published: 10 May 2018
... for the children whose parents failed to meet Rosenfeld’s family mobility constraint. Rosenfeld restricted the sample to own children because of the unobserved timing of grade retention. It is entirely possible that adopted and stepchildren of same-sex couples lag behind in school prior to entry...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 671–696.
Published: 01 November 2004
... shows that educational outcomes for both types of children in blended families—stepchildren and their half-siblings who are the joint children of both parents—are similar to each other and substantially worse than outcomes for children reared in traditional nuclear families. We conclude...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 813–826.
Published: 01 June 2022
...) respondent never fathered/gave birth to a child, (2) respondent had no children who were living and in contact, and (3) respondent and spouse/partner had no children or stepchildren who were living and in contact. Results showed that the prevalence of childlessness among Americans aged 55 or older ranged...
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 February 2006
... families tended to achieve at lower levels than those not in blended families, stepchildren in blended families achieved at levels comparable to those of half-siblings. Finally, children in blended families tended to have fewer behavioral problems than those not in blended families. 14 1 2011 ©...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1567–1582.
Published: 15 June 2018
... trends—declining family size and children’s delay in marriage—account for part of the increase across cohorts. However, other trends, such as the increase in the number of stepchildren and increasing child’s income level, tend to decrease the observed cohort trend. References Albertini M...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1479–1498.
Published: 24 July 2012
.... Our analysis distinguishes between couples raising shared children and couples who are raising the children of one partner only. We define “shared children” to be children who are biologically related to or adopted by both cohabiting partners. “Stepchildren” are children who are identified...
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 187–200.
Published: 01 May 1998
... other ties such as those with children (Seltzer et al. 1989). Alternatively, the fulfillment of emo- tional needs by seeing one's children might be transferred to a new spouse (Stephens 1996). Remarriage can also entail new parenting duties, either toward stepchildren or new bio- logical offspring. Each...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 445–473.
Published: 07 February 2020
... for their coresident stepchildren, particularly in patrilineal regions where these children benefit less dramatically from their mothers’ education. Together, the study results offer a renewed sense of the importance of parents’—including stepfathers’—education for early childhood health across diverse family...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 45–70.
Published: 11 January 2017
...Karen Benjamin Guzzo Abstract Children from prior relationships potentially complicate fertility decision-making in new cohabitations and marriages. On the one hand, the “value of children” perspective suggests that unions with and without stepchildren have similar—and deliberate—reasons for shared...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 405–426.
Published: 05 March 2019
... a first relationship ends. Repartnering among parents means that families have become increasingly likely to include children from different relationships—stepchildren or quasi-stepchildren through cohabitation (Guzzo 2017 ; Wachter 1997 ). The diverging family destinies that Sara McLanahan talked about...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 963–969.
Published: 18 November 2012
... is the relationship we want to measure, the additional cases make the measurement less precise, rather than more precise. Allen et al. included adopted children, stepchildren, and foster children in their models, and these additional children (even though they are relatively few) have a strong effect...
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 425–436.
Published: 01 August 1995
... – 51 . 10.2307/2061492 Cherlin A.J. ( 1978 ). Remarriage as an Incomplete Institution . American Journal of Sociology , 84 , 634 – 50 . 10.1086/226830 Glick P.C. ( 1989 ). Remarried Families, Stepfamilies, and Stepchildren: A Brief Demographic Profile . Family Relations...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 955–961.
Published: 18 November 2012
.... These subgroups are those in which the children in the sample are not biologically related to the household head (e.g., adopted children and stepchildren) and those in which the children and parents have not lived in the same residence for the previous five years. However, while we share Rosenfeld’s concern...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 147–171.
Published: 01 February 2023
... controlled for whether the current marriage was the respondent's first, second, or third or higher. We controlled for the presence of children in the household with counts of the respondent's biological children and stepchildren in the home, each divided into those under 5 and those aged 5–17 and each top...
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 653–681.
Published: 01 November 1993
... or prior marriage Children Born in Current Marriage First child Second child Third Fourth Pregnant at marriage Stepchildren, K(t) K-Mar K-Illeg Previous Marriages 2nd MAR Regressors: CATHOLIC JEWISH EDRL12 EDR16 BLACK SD12 SD56 MSTN MNDR MMNDR SIBLINGS MNEXP Religion Catholic Religion Jewish Wife's...
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