Family structure, family stability and outcomes of five-year-old children

Craigie, Terry‐Ann; Brooks‐Gunn, Jeanne; Waldfogel, Jane

doi:10.1332/204674312x633153

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“…Research does suggest that growing up in a single-parent home has a negative impact on children. [49][50][51] Factors, such as parental education, family income, and neighborhood resources, may buffer children from the negative effects of single-parent families, 52,53 but often are not present in the economically distressed communities in which our participants grew up.…”

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Adverse Childhood Experiences of Low-Income Urban Youth

Wade¹,

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Current assessments of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may not adequately encompass the breadth of adversity to which low-income urban children are exposed. The purpose of this study was to identify and characterize the range of adverse childhood experiences faced by young adults who grew up in a low-income urban area. METHODS: Focus groups were conducted with young adults who grew up in low-income Philadelphia neighborhoods. Using the nominal group technique, participants generated a list of adverse childhood experiences and then identified the 5 most stressful experiences on the group list. The most stressful experiences identified by participants were grouped into a ranked list of domains and subdomains. RESULTS: Participants identified a range of experiences, grouped into 10 domains: family relationships, community stressors, personal victimization, economic hardship, peer relationships, discrimination, school, health, child welfare/juvenile justice, and media/technology. Included in these domains were many but not all of the experiences from the initial ACEs studies; parental divorce/separation and mental illness were absent. Additional experiences not included in the initial ACEs but endorsed by our participants included single-parent homes; exposure to violence, adult themes, and criminal behavior; personal victimization; bullying; economic hardship; and discrimination. CONCLUSIONS: Gathering youth perspectives on childhood adversity broadens our understanding of the experience of stress and trauma in childhood. Future work is needed to determine the significance of this broader set of adverse experiences in predisposing children to poor health outcomes as adults.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences of Low-Income Urban Youth

Wade¹,

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“…Paternal involvement and child-peer interactions A substantial body of evidence suggests that when children experience an absence of paternal involvement, in the form of single parenthood, they are more prone to experience poorer social and arrested cognitive development and elevated levels of internalising, compared to their two-parent counterparts (Amato & Dorius, 2010;Chih-Yuan, Lee, & August, 2011;Clarke-Stewart, Vandell, McCartney, Owen, & Booth, 2000;Craigie, Brooks-Gunn, & Waldfogel, 2012;Gaumon & Paquette, 2013;Lopez, Melendez, & Rice, 2000;Nair & Murray, 2005;Woodward, Fergusson, & Belsky, 2000). One explanation put forward for poorer child-peer interactions in single-parent families is change in the child's maternal attachment quality, resulting from spousal separation (Crockenberg, 1981;Lopez et al, 2000;Woodward et al, 2000).…”

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Applying Pleck's model of paternal involvement to the study of preschool attachment quality: a proof of concept study

Kennedy

Betts

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Early Child Development and Care

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Recent re-conceptualisation of paternal involvement (Pleck, J. H. (2010). Paternal involvement: Revised conceptualization and theoretical linkages with child outcomes. In M. Lamb (Ed.), The role of the father in child development (5th ed., pp. 67-107). London: Wiley), while proving fruitful, has yet to be applied to investigations into what extent a father's level of involvement may affect childpeer interactions in the preschool age range, over and above the effects of motherchild attachment quality and socio-economic status (SES). Patterns of associations between attachment quality, sensitivity and general caregiving behaviours have also yet to be compared in equally involved mothers and fathers. Thirty preschool children (17 males:13 females) with similar SES profiles and their immediate caregivers participated in hour-long observations, conducted in the home. Even when attachment quality was controlled for, children with low paternal involvement were found to have higher levels of child-peer aggression. Further, patterns of effects between caregiver sensitivity, child-caregiver attachment quality and general caregiver interactions were similar for equally involved mothers and fathers. These preliminary data support the concept of applying Pleck's (2010) re-conceptualisation of paternal involvement to preschool attachment, and have implications towards the wider study of child-father attachment. Limitations of the current study and directions for future research are discussed.

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“…Many mothers formed new relationships and had children with the new partner. The work of Craigie et al (2012) suggests that transitions might be detrimental to children.…”

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“…However, children whose parents continue to stay together in that first year, either in marriage, cohabitation, or a visiting relationship, fare better than children whose mothers end the relationship with the biological father. Craigie et al (2012) go further and attempt to attribute differences in outcomes to initial family structure separately from the transitions in family structure until the child is five years old. They use the FFCWS and find small amount of correlation between outcomes and initial family structure.…”

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“…Children living with married parents at age five had higher test scores compared to children whose parents were cohabiting, the mother was single, or the mother was with a new partner (either cohabiting or married). The results of Craigie et al (2012) suggest that marital transitions away from a nuclear family might be detrimental to child outcomes.…”

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Marriage Markets, Timing of First Marriage, and Child Outcomes

Kolczykiewicz

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I develop an estimation framework for a model tracking population changes over time where observations are recorded by multiple sources with differing frequency and precision.I apply this framework to recover the number of unmarried men and women by age and race in each state for every year over the last three decades by combining measurements from the Decennial Census, the Current Population Survey, and the American Community Yearly estimates of potential partner supply are also used to identify and estimate the effect of mother's marriage on children born out of wedlock. I use the Child and Young Adult Survey (CNLSY79), a survey that collects information on children of the NLSY79 women, to link children with their mothers and the marriage markets these women experienced.Ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions show that black children whose mothers marry are more likely to obtain a high school diploma relative to children whose mothers remain unwed. The effect of marital union is also positive when sex ratios are used as instruments for the mother's marriage decision. However, the instrumental variable results are not robust to the inclusion of other explanatory variables that can affect marriage market features. JEL-Classification: I20, J11, J12, J13

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Family structure, family stability and outcomes of five-year-old children

Cited by 44 publications

References 38 publications

Adverse Childhood Experiences of Low-Income Urban Youth

Adverse Childhood Experiences of Low-Income Urban Youth

Applying Pleck's model of paternal involvement to the study of preschool attachment quality: a proof of concept study

Marriage Markets, Timing of First Marriage, and Child Outcomes

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