Search Results for Stepfamily

...Emily E. Wiemers; Judith A. Seltzer; Robert F. Schoeni; V. Joseph Hotz; Suzanne M. Bianchi Abstract Unstable couple relationships and high rates of repartnering have increased the share of U.S. families with stepkin. Yet data on stepfamily structure are from earlier periods, include only coresident...

... childbearing. On the other hand, multipartnered fertility (MPF) research suggests that childbearing across partnerships is often unintended. Using the 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth and event-history models, I examine the role of stepfamily status on cohabiting and married women’s fertility...

... a significant proportion of officially defined single-parent families actually are two-parent unmarried families. The present paper expands on this perspective with respect to stepfamilies. We must broaden our definition of stepfamilies to include cohabitations involving a child of only one partner, and must...

..., an older parent is more likely to spend time with adult children in biological families than in stepfamilies only when there is no shared biological child in the stepfamily. In dyadic analyses, a parent's tie with an adult child who is a biological child of both partners is stronger in stepfamilies than...

... outcomes. Moving out of a cohabiting stepfamily into a single-mother family was not harmful and was actually associated with improvements in school engagement. Moving into a cohabiting stepfamily from a single-mother family decreased adolescent well-being, and this impact was greater than that experienced...

... and mother reports of family structure were discrepant. This boundary ambiguity in reporting was most pronounced for cohabiting stepfamilies. Among mothers who reported living with a cohabiting partner, only one-third of their teenage children also reported residing in a cohabiting stepfamily. Conversely...

... and stepfamilies are more likely than children from two-parent families to move during the school year. As much as 30% of the difference in the risk of dropping out between children from stepfamilies and children from intact families can be explained by differences in residential mobility. Previously, mechanisms...

... Over: Why Remarriages Are More Unstable . Journal of Family Issues , 13 , 179 – 94 . 10.1177/019251392013002004 Bray , J.H. , & Berger , S.H. ( 1993 ). Developmental Issues in Stepfamily Research Project: Family Relationships and Parent-Child Interactions . Journal of Family...

...Judith A. Seltzer Abstract Increases in life expectancy, high rates of movement into and out of couple relationships, and increasing exposure to stepfamilies raise new questions about who is in a family, the distinction between who lives together and who is a family member, and the extent to which...

... in his data. Bumpass et al. ( 1995 ) showed, indeed, that a significant proportion of stepfamilies were formed by cohabitation, but they did not distinguish between stepfamilies that did and those that did not produce additional births. Recent studies that include cohabiters show that about one-half...

... new partnerships and have additional children in stepfamilies. The balance between these two opposing forces and their implications for fertility may depend on the timing of union formation and parenthood. In this article, we estimate models of childbearing, union formation, and union dissolution...

... of America, Chicago. Bumpass , L. L. , Raley , R.K. , & Sweet , J.A. ( 1995 ). The Changing Character of Stepfamilies: Implications of Cohabitation and Nonmarital Childbearing. . Demography , 32 , 425 – 36 . 10.2307/2061689 Bumpass , L.L. , & Sweet , J.A ( 1989...

... levels throughout Europe and in the United States (Andersson 2002 ; Andersson et al. 2017 ). Approximately one-half of children born to a lone mother or experiencing parental separation enter a stepfamily within six years (Andersson et al. 2017 ). Of stepfamily couples in their reproductive years...

... – 417 . 10.2307/1973512 Hernandez , D. J. ( 1986 ). Childhood in sociodemographic perspective . In R. II. Turner , & J. F. Short (Eds.), Annua/ Review of Sociology (pp. 159 – 180 ). Palo Alto, Calif : Annual Review . Lutz , P. ( 1983 ). The stepfamily...

... behaviors in later childhood and adolescence (Keenan et al. 1998 ; Moffitt 1993 ) and because aggressive behavior occurs more frequently among children residing in stepfamilies or with single mothers (Pearson et al. 1994 ; Ram and Hou 2005 ) and when step- or half-siblings are present in a child’s...

... Although researchers have dis- tinguished children living with divorced mothers from children living with never-married mothers and those in stepfamily arrangements, little is known about the number and char- acteristics of children living in multigenerational families and whether these children ex- hibit...

... children, demonstrating the broader value of these new measures for research on American family and household structure. 28 6 2012 24 7 2012 © Population Association of America 2012 2012 Cohabitation Measurement Living Arrangements Stepfamilies Poverty The rise...

.... , Maccoby , E.E. , & Dornbusch , S.M. ( 1996 ). Adolescents After Divorce . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Case , A. , Lin , I.-F. , & McLanahan , S. ( 2001 ). Educational Attainment of Siblings in Stepfamilies . Evolution and Human Behavior , 22 , 269...

... of divorce. Neither extreme gives a clear picture of the consequences of growing up in a single-parent family or a stepfamily. GOING TO EXTREMES: FAMILY STRUCTURE, CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE· ANDREW J. CHERLIN In this article I argue that public discussions ofdemographic issues are often...