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Title: Unexamined Stable Family: An Examination of Child Well-Being in Stable-Single Parent Families
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Kamp Dush, Claire M. Dunifon, Rachel |
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Unexamined Stable Family: An Examination of Child Well-Being in Stable-Single Parent Families Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007. Also: http://paa2007.princeton.edu/abstractViewer.aspx?submissionId=71406 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Family Formation; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Parents, Single; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We find in an analysis of a merged mother-child NLSY79-C dataset that after controlling for characteristics of the child, mother, and family, children of married parents reported higher quality home environments and higher math and reading scores than children living with stable-single (never married or cohabited) mothers. Further, children born to cohabiting parents who either remain cohabiting or eventually marry were in homes with better environments than children living with stable-single mothers, but these unions did not appear to benefit children in terms of behavior or academic outcomes. We also find that unions, regardless of type, appear to benefit children who were born to single mothers in terms of their home environment and math scores. Even after these unions dissolve, children living with their newly single mother who has previously experienced a union still have higher math and reading scores than children still living with their stable-single mother. |
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Kamp Dush, Claire M. and Rachel Dunifon. "Unexamined Stable Family: An Examination of Child Well-Being in Stable-Single Parent Families." Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007. |