This paper examines the consequences of incarceration for non-resident White, Latino, and African American fathers’ contact with children and their formal and informal child support agreements three years after the child’s birth. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing...

Previous research has found that pregnancy intentions are predictive of some early parental behaviors and infant health outcomes. However, most studies have relied on mothers’ reports of pregnancy intentions and have examined only maternal behaviors which may affect children’s health. This...

Previous research has found that pregnancy intentions are predictive of some early parental behaviors and infant health outcomes. However, most studies have relied on mothers’ reports of pregnancy intentions and have examined only maternal behaviors which may affect children’s health. This...

Using a unique set of longitudinal qualitative interviews with parents who participated in the Fragile Families Study in Oakland, California, this paper examines the situations in which disadvantaged fathers shared caretaking responsibilities with mothers in the first four years of their...

This paper examines the consequences of incarceration for non-resident White, Latino, and African American fathers’ contact with children and their formal and informal child support agreements three years after the child’s birth. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing...

Drawing on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we examine how unmarried parents’ risk of divorce influences their decision to delay marriage. We first use the sample of initially married mothers in the study to estimate their probability of marital dissolution as a...

Drawing on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we examine how unmarried parents’ risk of divorce influences their decision to delay marriage. We first use the sample of initially married mothers in the study to estimate their probability of marital dissolution as a...

For those interested in child wellbeing, time use can provide an unusually objective measure of exactly what youth are doing. Before we can evaluate how well children are doing and why some are doing better than others, it is important to understand what they are doing, with whom, and in which...

Today, 37% of all births are to unmarried mothers (Hamilton, Martin, & Ventura, 2006). This represents a doubling in nonmarital childbearing in the past 25 years. Reducing nonmarital childbearing and promoting marriage among unmarried parents have become major policy concerns because, although...