Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in … equal allocation of time with the child, though beneficial to the children, may have a negative effect for the mother …

This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women …'s bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children …