Partnership Instability and Child Well-Being

By Cynthia Osborne, Sara McLanahan. 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Demographic Trends in the United States: A Review of Research in the 2000s (2010, background): “They find that the number of transitions that children experience is associated with undesirable outcomes such as behavior problems (Fomby & Cherlin, 2007; Osborne & McLanahan, 2007) and less competency in interacting with peers at school (Cavanagh & Huston, 2006).”
Advances in Families and Health Research in the 21st Century (2010, background): “The magnitude and duration of these effects varied by child gender (Oldehinkel et al., 2008), the number, types, and timing of transitions (Cavanagh & Huston, 2006), and parenting quality (Osborne & McLanahan, 2007).”
Effects of Family Structure Type and Stability on Children's Academic Performance Trajectories (2011, background): “…status at birth (Magnuson & Berger, 2009), disability status (Magnuson & Berger), native language status, number of siblings at home (Downey, 1995), biological mother’s age (Carlson & Corcoran, 2001), and biological mother’s marital status when the child was born (Osborne & McLanahan, 2007).”
Economic Insecurity and Social Stratification (2012, background): “These “fragile families,” consisting not just of the poor but of the lower third of American families with children, provide a high-risk setting for children’s schooling and development (Osborne & McLanahan 2007).”
Chronic and Proximate Depression among Mothers: Implications for Child Well-Being. (2011, background): “Characteristics of the family environment such as family instability and number of siblings were linked to less favorable behaviors (D. B. Downey & Condron, 2004; Fomby & Osborne, 2008; Osborne & McLanahan, 2007).”
Serial Cohabitation and the Marital Life Course (2008, unknown): “It is the children of these women who are most likely to be ‘‘at risk’’ of poverty, developmental delays, and poor adult outcomes (Carlson & Furstenberg, 2006; Osborne & McLanahan, 2007).”