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Title: Family Structure and Child Well-Being: The Role of Parental Social Connections
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1. Dunifon, Rachel
Kowaleski-Jones, Lori
Family Structure and Child Well-Being: The Role of Parental Social Connections
In: Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda. L. Kowaleski-Jones and N. Wolfinger, eds., New York: Springer, 2006: 107-125
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Delinquency/Gang Activity; Family Income; Family Structure; Family, Extended; Grandparents; Household Composition; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Social Contacts/Social Network; Welfare

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Chapter 5: Our previous work found that single-parenthood was associated with reduced wellbeing for white, but not black, children (Dunifon and Kowaleski-Jones 2002). The current paper examines whether parental social connections account for differences in the effects of family structure on child well-being. Using data from the 1979 to 2000 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, our results show a key role for living with a grandparent in accounting for race differences in the influence of single-parenthood on children. In contrast, visiting friends and relatives did not explain differences in the relationship between single-parenthood and child delinquency among African American and families receiving public assistance sub-groups.
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Dunifon, Rachel and Lori Kowaleski-Jones. "Family Structure and Child Well-Being: The Role of Parental Social Connections" In: Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda. L. Kowaleski-Jones and N. Wolfinger, eds., New York: Springer, 2006: 107-125