Cohabitation and Children's Family Instability

By R. Raley, E. Wildsmith. 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Same‐Sex Parent Families and Children's Academic Achievement (2012, background): “…the disparities in children’s outcomes associated with family structure become indicative of the changes preceding nontraditional families, and this pattern has been observed across divorced-parent, single-parent, stepparent, and cohabiting-parent families (Amato, 2005; Raley & Wildsmith, 2004).”
Poverty and family structure effects on children's mathematics achievement: Estimates from random and fixed effects models (2009, background): “…that when studying child outcomes, it is important to separate the effects of living with cohabiting biological or stepparents from those of living with married biological parents, single-parents, and married stepfamilies (Brown, 2004; Raley & Wildsmith, 2004; Raley, Frisco, & Wildsmith, 2005).”
Fundamental Dimensions of Environmental Risk (2009, background): “Indeed, children who experience changes in parental figures are exposed to a high level of environmental instability and unpredictably (Raley and Wildsmith 2004).”
The relative stability of cohabiting and marital unions for children (2004, background): “Similarly, Raley and Wildsmith (2001) provide important descriptive findings that show white and black children from the 1980-1984 birth cohort born to married mothers experience fewer family transitions than children born to cohabiting mothers.”
Effects of Family Structure Type and Stability on Children's Academic Performance Trajectories (2011, background): “On the other hand, American children are more likely than ever to experience family structural transitions during their childhoods (Bumpass & Lu, 2000; Raley & Wildsmith, 2004).”
Family Structure History and Adolescent Adjustment (2008, background): “…their family context during their earliest years, or they may not know enough about the relationships that their mothers and fathers had with their respective partners to decide whether they were cohabiting or not (Raley & Wildsmith, 2004), notwithstanding other data limitations already discussed.”