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Title: Shuffling the Line-Up: How Shifting Household Membership Following Parental Divorce Affects Child Welfare
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Morrison, Donna Ruane |
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Shuffling the Line-Up: How Shifting Household Membership Following Parental Divorce Affects Child Welfare Presented: Washington, DC, Poplation Association of America Annual Meeting, March 2001 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Behavioral Problems; Children, Behavioral Development; Divorce; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Family Formation; Family Structure; Family Studies; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Remarriage; Stepfamilies Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Typically we think of children's living arrangements following parental divorce according to three male partner-centered categories: mother remains single, mother remarries, or mother cohabits.These distinctions obscure other potentially important variations in household membership, however, to which many children are required to adapt. The boundaries of stepfamilies are often very fluid, for example, with step-children joining and departing the household at different points in the union, rather than arriving with the spouse or partner as a "package deal." Of course new unions also sometimes produce children of their own. Because these are issues largely untapped by large-scale empirical research, a much richer demographic picture of shifts in household composition in mother-custody families is needed as well as an understanding of the implications for child-well being. Employing merged mother-child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and up to five observation points per child, the paper uses fixed-effects regression models to examine the influence of changing household membership on children's behavior problems. |
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Morrison, Donna Ruane. "Shuffling the Line-Up: How Shifting Household Membership Following Parental Divorce Affects Child Welfare." Presented: Washington, DC, Poplation Association of America Annual Meeting, March 2001. |