Does Family Structure Matter? A Comparison of Adoptive, Two-Parent Biological, Single-Mother, Stepfather, and Stepmother Households

By Jennifer E. Lansford, Rosario Ceballo, A. Abbey, A. Stewart. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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TARGET ARTICLE: Singles in Society and in Science (2005, unknown): “Would civil status have different implications for the poor if classism were less rampant (Lott, 2002) or for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people if heterosexism waned? Were single people healthier than married people in White’s (1992) study, though not in other studies of Americans, because Ca”
Mothers, Fathers, Families, and Circumstances: Factors Affecting Children's Adjustment (2012, background): “…Goodman, & Rutter, 2002; Golombok et al., 2011; Golombok et al., 2011; Jadva, Freeman, Kramer, & Golombok, 2009; Juffer & van IJzendoorn, 2007; Lansford et al., 2001; MacCallum & Keeley, 2007; Owens &Golombok, 2009; Palacios & Brodzinsky, 2010; Stams, Juffer, & van IJzendoorn, 2002; van…”
Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents: Evaluating the Importance of Biological Ties for Parental Investment (2007, background): “…populations that are more likely than the general population to exhibit problems, and they implicate the absence of biological ties between parents and children as a source of pathology (Bartholet 1993; March and Miall 2000; Modell 1994; Wegar 1997; for an exception, see Lansford et al. 2001).”
Parenting and Child Development in Adoptive Families: Does Parental Sexual Orientation Matter? (2010, background): “These associations have been found both in biological and adoptive families, and among families with lesbian, gay parents and heterosexual parents (eg, Chan et al, 1998 ; Erich, Kanenberg, Case, Allen, & Bogdanos, 2009; Lansford, Ceballo, Abbey, & Stewart, 2001 ).”
The pains and pleasures of parenting: when, why, and how is parenthood associated with more or less well-being? (2014, background): “Moreover, it appears that family structure may differentially influence the well-being of mothers and fathers (e.g., Demo & Acock, 1996; Lansford et al., 2001), so future researchers should be particularly sensitive to gender differences in their samples when examining family structure and parents’…”