Her recent work includes an NICHD - funded project (with Kristi Williams at The Ohio State University) that examines the consequences of
nonmarital and early
fertility for the health of women and their offspring and considers the role that subsequent marriage plays in shaping these outcomes.
The growing trend in multipartnered
fertility, along with high rates of
nonmarital births, means that many men are fathering children from multiple women at a distance, 45,46 a trait that is associated with greater externalizing behaviours and poorer health among children.47