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Is children's development, and children's cognitive development in particular, affected by the marital status of their parents? On the face of it, this seems to be a simple question to which there is an intuitively simple answer: yes. Yet the answer to this question is anything but simple. The...
This research links residence with biological and nonbiological married and unmarried parents to the cognitive achievement and behavioral problems of children aged 3-12, controlling for factors that make such families different. The data were drawn from the 1997 Child Development Supplement to...
Previous research on cohabitation and child well-being has primarily used cross-sectional analyses to understand how children in cohabiting families fare vis-à-vis their counterparts in other family types. So, we know little about transitions in cohabiting families and how these transitions...