, quantitative research tends to consider effects on child wellbeing and generally concludes paternal incarceration harms children …’ relationships with their children’s mothers. Effects on mothers’ parenting, however, are more inconsistent, as recent paternal …

characteristics, as well as mother-father and parent-child relationships, with regard to differences in wellbeing for children living … differences in returns to (effects of) these characteristics and behaviors for children in the two family types. …

families with children and very low food security of children using micro-level data from the Fragile Families and Child Well … incarceration and food insecurity and very low food security among children, families, and adults. The incidence of very low food … children, adults and households with children, but the results are not significant in various specification. Food insecurity …

, but includes few men who fathered children out of wedlock. This paper asks whether increasing marriage (and possibly … new birth cohort study the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study which follows unmarried parents for the first five …

, but includes few men who fathered children out of wedlock. This paper asks whether increasing marriage (and possibly … new birth cohort study the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study which follows unmarried parents for the first five …

housing market distress and marital dissolution among couples with children. Although the recession increased economic …

variation in children’s test scores at school entry. …

living with both parents prior to paternal incarceration and among children of previously incarcerated fathers. Taken … intergenerational relationships, children’s contact with grandparents. Results from both ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed …-effects regression models show that incarceration decreases the frequency of children’s contact with paternal, but not maternal …

child with a new romantic partner, relative to parents who experience no additional childbearing. However, increases in … mothers and fathers only when new romantic partners have children from previous relationships. Increases in parenting stress … following all fertility transitions are stronger for less-educated parents than for more-educated parents. …