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1. Joshi, Heather
Cooksey, Elizabeth C.
Clarke, Lynda
Wiggins, Richard D.
McCulloch, Andrew
Family Disruption and the Cognitive and Behavioural Development of Children in Longitudinal Data from Britain and USA
Working Paper No. 50, National Child Development Study, User Support Group, March 1998.
Also: London, England: City University, Social Statistics Research Unit
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: National Child Development Study - NCDS
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Britain, British; Children, Well-Being; Cross-national Analysis; Families, Two-Parent; Family Characteristics; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Family Structure; Family Studies; Heterogeneity; Modeling; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT)

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Does the increasing number of children living outside a conventional two-parent nuclear family, mean bad news for children? Is cognitive and emotional development being harmed by the breakdown of the family, or has a moral panic been overstated? Evidence comes from the second generation of the British NCDS (1958 birth cohort), collected in 1991, when the study members were 33, and the American NLSY (1958-1965 cohorts), interviewed in 1992, when the sub-sample of their children studied were at least 4. Models relating family structure to child well-being are presented with and without adjustment for other demographic, social and economic circumstances. A multi-variate, multi-level strategy estimates heterogeneity within and between families. Simple associations between family disruption and child well-being are shown to be mediated through material and other factors. The high variability in the data defies deterministic modelling but there appear to be differing associations in the two countries.
Bibliography Citation
Joshi, Heather, Elizabeth C. Cooksey, Lynda Clarke, Richard D. Wiggins and Andrew McCulloch. "Family Disruption and the Cognitive and Behavioural Development of Children in Longitudinal Data from Britain and USA." Working Paper No. 50, National Child Development Study, User Support Group, March 1998.