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All couples with minor children who filed for divorce within a specific 6-week period (N = 191 couples) in one jurisdiction were ordered to attend a divorce education program. The control group included about 20 couples randomly selected from each of six 6-week intervals before and six 6-week...
Current descriptions of coparenting (i.e., shared decision making between parents and the coordination of parenting activities; Feinberg, 2002; McHale & Kuersten-Hogan, 2004) often are not informed by diverse cultural or family contexts, or by the perspectives of fathers. One group that has...
Research conducted since the late 1980s has identified more than two dozen teenpregnancy and STI prevention programs with evidence of effectiveness. Key strengths of thisresearch are the large number of randomized controlled trials, the common use of multiple followupperiods, and attention to a...
To provide our readers with a context for understanding the debate over marriage, we selected several central topics and invited some of the country's leading scholars to share their expertise. Two authors were asked to examine recent economic, demographic, and social developments that have...
During the past century the U.S. family system has seen vast changes--in marriage and divorce rates, cohabitation, childbearing, sexual behavior, and women's work outside the home. Andrew Cherlin reviews these historic changes, noting that marriage remains the most common living arrangement for...
Research has shown that living away from one's biological father is associated with a greater risk of adverse child and adolescent outcomes; yet, the role of the father-child relationship in understanding this association has not been directly investigated. This study uses data on biological...
Current theories of marriage under-predict the extent of non-marriage, have not been adequately tested, or do not apply well to women with low-socioeconomic status. Furthermore, scholarly research on marriage attitudes among low-SES women suffers from a lack of up-to-date qualitative work. This...
The extent and implications of cohabitation and marriage among US welfare recipients are investigated. An analysis of 4 data sets shows significant numbers of cohabitors among recipients of AFDC. An even more surprising finding is the large number of married women on welfare. The results of a...
We examined the relationship between fathers' human, social, and financial capital and future marital plans among 176 pregnant adolescent mothers and the fathers of their babies. Fathers' social capital proved to be the most significant resource in relation to marital plans. Mothers and fathers...
Using data on low-income mothers in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, the authors tested three propositions regarding mothers' attitudes toward childbearing, marriage, and divorce. These are drawn from K. Edin and M. J. Kefalas (2005) but have also arisen in other recent studies. The authors...