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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 229–260.
Published: 07 December 2018
...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...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 45–70.
Published: 11 January 2017
... 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...
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 425–436.
Published: 01 August 1995
... 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...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1821–1842.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., 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...
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in Family Disruption and Intergenerational Reproduction: Comparing the Influences of Married Parents, Divorced Parents, and Stepparents
> Demography
Published: 27 May 2015
Fig. 1 Correlations between variables in three-parent model for stepfamilies
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 447–461.
Published: 01 August 2006
... 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...
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 85–101.
Published: 01 February 2009
... 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...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 575–584.
Published: 01 November 1994
... 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...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 181–197.
Published: 01 February 2002
... 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...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 405–426.
Published: 05 March 2019
...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...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 485–508.
Published: 08 January 2014
... author(s) and the source are credited. Multipartnered Fertility Repartnering Stepfamily Half-sibling In most wealthy countries, cohabitation, divorce, nonunion or nonmarital childbearing, and repartnering have become or are becoming common features of the family system. As a result...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 175–195.
Published: 19 January 2012
... 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...
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Life course transitions of American children: Parental cohabitation, marriage, and single motherhood
Demography (1999) 36 (2): 205–217.
Published: 01 May 1999
... 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...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2205–2228.
Published: 30 October 2018
... 15 increased or remained at high 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...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 267–277.
Published: 01 May 1989
... – 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...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 1–26.
Published: 25 November 2015
... ) 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 household (Gennetian 2005 ; Halpern-Meekin and Tach 2008 ; Tillman 2008b ). Aggressive...
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 393–413.
Published: 01 May 2002
... 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...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1479–1498.
Published: 24 July 2012
... 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...
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 February 2006
.... , 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...
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 421–428.
Published: 01 November 1999
... of divorce. Neither extreme gives a clear picture of the consequences of growing up in a single-parent family or a stepfamily. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1999 1999 Family Structure Parental Divorce Parental Separation Genetic Inheritance Social Demographer...
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