Sentences with phrase «nonmarital parenting»
This research brief is part of a series exploring the dynamics of nonmarital parenting.
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Related disparities arose in births out of marriage and in children living with a single parent — not much change in Belmont, a great change in Fishtown: almost 30 percent of white births are now nonmarital, up from just a few percent in 1960.
On average, single - parent families had only half the income of two - parent families, and this difference accounted for about half the gap between the two sets of children in high school dropout and nonmarital teen birth rates (in regression models that also controlled for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).31
For example, adults who experience parental divorce as a child have lower socioeconomic attainment, an increased risk of having a nonmarital birth, weaker bonds with parents, lower psychological well - being, poorer marital quality, and an elevated risk of seeing their own marriage end in divorce.7 Overall, the evidence is consistent that parental divorce during childhood is linked with a wide range of problems in adulthood.
Specifically, compared with children who grow up in stable, two - parent families, children born outside marriage reach adulthood with less education, earn less income, have lower occupational status, are more likely to be idle (that is, not employed and not in school), are more likely to have a nonmarital birth (among daughters), have more troubled marriages, experience higher rates of divorce, and report more symptoms of depression.8
Prior research on nonmarital childrearing reveals that a parent's romantic relationship, positive coparenting, and parental cohabitation are all positively associated with increased paternal involvement and support.
This dramatic rise in the number of nonmarital births is of growing concern because of the precarious economic status of single parents (most often mothers) and their children.
This dramatic rise in the number of nonmarital births is of growing concern because of the precarious economic status of single parents (most often mothers) and children.
The data provide snapshots of relationships among unmarried Texas parents during pregnancy, shortly after birth, and three years after a nonmarital birth.
Parents who do not sign an AOP are most likely to have neither informal nor formal support arrangements — three months after a nonmarital birth, 48 percent of non-signing fathers provide no financial support at all.
This brief examines the dynamics of relationship violence among unmarried parents with newborns, paying special attention to the common characteristics and trajectories that typify violent relationships in the period surrounding a nonmarital birth.
This is worrisome because decades of research show that children raised in single - parent homes fare worse on a wide range of outcomes (e.g. poverty, educational attainment, nonmarital and teen childbearing) than children raised by two biological parents.
Fact: «Although there is some evidence that children living with their married parents, even parents in unstable marriages, have better outcomes than children living in certain nonmarital arrangements, the findings vary across domains and specifications, and the effect sizes are generally small.
This study proposes that the family structures associated with risk — single - mother, step - parent, and cohabiting — influence early sexual debut due to family instability, including shifts in family structure and maternal dating, which can undermine parental control and transmit messages about the acceptability of nonmarital sex.