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1.	Morrison, Donna Ruane Coiro, Mary Jo
1.	Parental Conflict and Marital Disruption: Do Children Benefit When High-Conflict Marriages Are Dissolved? Journal of Marriage and Family 61,3 (August 1999): 626-637. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/353565 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: National Council on Family Relations Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Children, Home Environment; Children, Well-Being; Divorce; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Marital Conflict; Marital Disruption; Marital Satisfaction/Quality; Marriage A million children experience divorce each year and some policymakers argue for policies that would make it more difficult for parents to divorce. However being exposed to a high degree of marital conflict has been shown to place children at risk for a variety of problems. Using mother-child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and a prospective design, this research explores two questions: Do the effects of marital disruption on child well-being vary for children whose parents leave high-conflict marriages versus low-conflict marriages? How do children fare when their high-conflict parents remain together? We find that separation and divorce are associated with increases in behavior problems in children, regardless of the level of conflict between parents. However in marriages that do not break up, high levels of marital conflict are associated with even greater increases in children's behavior problems.
	Bibliography Citation Morrison, Donna Ruane and Mary Jo Coiro. "Parental Conflict and Marital Disruption: Do Children Benefit When High-Conflict Marriages Are Dissolved?" Journal of Marriage and Family 61,3 (August 1999): 626-637.

2.	Morrison, Donna Ruane Coiro, Mary Jo Blumenthal, Connie
2.	Marital Disruption, Conflict, and the Well Being of Children and Youth Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994. Revised August 1994; Child Trends paper 94-12. Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Well-Being; Divorce; Educational Attainment; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Fathers, Absence; Gender Differences; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Income; Marital Disruption; Marital Stability; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Recent studies using prospective data have revealed that many of the problems experienced by children of divorce can be traced to experiences that actually predated the break-up. Family conflict is key among the predisruption factors that affect child well-being. In this paper we examine whether the effect of marital disruption on children and young adults depends on the quality of the parental marriage prior to the disruption. We use longitudinal data from two complementary national-level data bases--the National Survey of Children to examine postdisruption well-being in young adulthood, and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - Supplement to examine outcomes among school-aged children. Because of documented differences in the way that boys and girls respond to psychosocial stress, we conduct our analyses separately by sex.
	Bibliography Citation Morrison, Donna Ruane, Mary Jo Coiro and Connie Blumenthal. "Marital Disruption, Conflict, and the Well Being of Children and Youth." Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994. Revised August 1994; Child Trends paper 94-12.

3.	Zill, Nicholas Moore, Kristin Anderson Smith, Ellen Wolpow Stief, Thomas Coiro, Mary Jo
3.	Life Circumstances and Development of Children in Welfare Families: A Profile Based on National Survey Data In: Escape from Poverty: What Make a Difference for Children? Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay and J. Brooks-Gunn, eds. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1995: pp. 38-59 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Health Factors; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Racial Studies; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. One child in seven in the United States is in a family that receives "welfare," or cash income through the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. As of September 1992 some 9.4 million children under the age of 18 were receiving AFDC (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1993). Because families move on and off welfare, a larger proportion of children receive AFDC for some period between birth and adulthood. Estimates by Martha Hill, Greg Duncan, and their colleagues at the University of Michigan, based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, are that 22% of U.S. children born in the early 1970s received welfare for at least 1 year before reaching their 15th birthday. For African-American children born during these years, an estimated 55% were dependent for some childhood (Committee on Ways and Means, 1991, p. 643).
	Bibliography Citation Zill, Nicholas, Kristin Anderson Moore, Ellen Wolpow Smith, Thomas Stief and Mary Jo Coiro. "Life Circumstances and Development of Children in Welfare Families: A Profile Based on National Survey Data" In: Escape from Poverty: What Make a Difference for Children? Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay and J. Brooks-Gunn, eds. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1995: pp. 38-59

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