Family Structure and Children's Success: A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-Mother Families

By Timothy J. Biblarz, G. Gottainer. 2000

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Social Relationships and Health Behavior Across Life Course (2010, background): “Parental death or divorce has a broad range of effects on children, including change in health risk behaviors (Biblarz & Gottainer 2000, Cherlin 2009).”
Institutional work: Taking stock and making it matter (2017, background): “One tend to focus on the relationship between family structure and a particular outcome, such as the educational achievement of children, or the economic success of family members (Biblarz & Gottainer, 2000; Biblarz & Raftery, 1999).”
Family structure and child outcomes in the USA and Sweden (2007, background): “Other researchers have used parental death as a quasi-natural experiment to examine the effect of family structure on children’s educational outcomes, finding that family structure changes due to parental death have little impact on children’s outcomes (Biblarz and Gottainer 2000; Lang and Zagorsky ”
Mothers, Fathers, Families, and Circumstances: Factors Affecting Children's Adjustment (2012, background): “…& Sobolewski, 2006; Zill, Morrison, & Coiro, 1993), the reduced resources available when there is only one bread-winning and care-providing parent (Biblarz & Gottainer, 2000; Carlson & Corcoran, 2001; McLanahan & Sandefur, 1994), unstable living arrangements and community ties, and conflict…”