The health of biracial children in two-parent families in the United States

Choi, Kate H.; Reichman, Nancy E.

doi:10.4054/demres.2019.41.8

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“…Children born to cohabiting Black mothers and White fathers experienced less family instability than those with cohabiting White mothers and Black fathers, highlighting the importance of father's race in determining family stability. Although based on small sample sizes, this work is consistent with past findings that children born to White mothers and Black fathers were more disadvantaged and had worse outcomes relative to children born to Black mothers and White fathers (Choi & Reichman, 2019). Supplementary results were similar for White-Hispanic youth.…”

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“…Using data from the 2006-2019 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), we addressed four research questions: (a) Do multiracial children experience more family transitions over the course of childhood than their monoracial counterparts; (b) Do the types of family structure transitions experienced by multiracial children (e.g., parental separations, parental repartnering) differ from their monoracial counterparts; (c) Do White-Black and White-Hispanic multiracial children differ in their exposures to family instability, and (d) Do differences in exposures to family instability between multiracial and monoracial children vary depending on the union context of their birth (i.e., marriage vs. cohabitation)? As in prior studies (e.g., Choi & Reichman, 2019;, children's racial/ethnic background is defined using the mother's report of her own race/ethnicity as well as that of the child's father.…”

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Multiracial Children's Experiences of Family Instability

Choi

Goldberg

2021

J of Marriage and Family

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This study compares multiracial and monoracial children's exposures to family instability, attending to variation by parents' marital status at birth. Background: Previous research has revealed considerable racial/ethnic heterogeneity in children's exposure to family instability. Adding to this diversity is the rising share of multiracial and multiethnic children. Yet, multiracial and multiethnic children's experiences of family instability remain largely unexamined. Methods: Data come from the 2006-2019 National Survey of Family Growth, a nationally representative repeated cross-section of U.S. adults of reproductive age. The analytic sample included 15,369 children born in first marriages and 8,612 children born in first cohabitations to non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic parents. Multistate life tables, negative binomial regression, and multinomial logistic regression were used to compare the number of family transitions and family trajectories of multiracial and monoracial children through age 12. Results: Differences in exposures to family instability between multiracial and monoracial

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Multiracial Children's Experiences of Family Instability

Choi

Goldberg

2021

J of Marriage and Family

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“…The socioeconomic profiles of interracial couples in unions involving a White partner tend to fall in between those of their same-race counterpartsless advantaged than same-race Whites, but more advantaged than same-race minority partners (Campbell 2009;Choi and Goldberg 2020). The behaviors and outcomes of interracial couples and their children also fall in between those of their same-race counterparts (Choi and Reichman 2019;Pittman et al forthcoming;Qian and Lichter 2021). To illustrate, the fertility rates, fertility intentions, stability, and outcome of interracial unions generally fall in between the corresponding outcomes for their same-race counterparts (e.g., Choi et al 2022;Pittman forthcoming;Qian and Lichter 2021;Yahirun and Kroeger 2019;Zhang and Van Hook 2009).…”

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Interracial Couples and Intergenerational Coresidence: The Role of Race/Ethnicity

Choi,

Yahirun

2024

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A sizeable share of interracial couples continue to report experiencing family opposition. However, few studies have empirically investigated whether intermarrying weakens ties with one’s kin and reduces exchanges between interracial couples and their family of origin. We examine whether interracial couples are less likely than same-race couples to live with an aging parent. We also investigate the role of each spouse’s race in shaping whether interracial couples reside with the wife’s or husband’s parents. Using data from the 2008-2022 American Community Surveys, we estimate logistic regression models to predict the odds of living with an aging parent. Next, we estimate multinomial logistic regression models to predict the competing risk of living with the wife's parents or husband's parents over the risk of living without an aging parent. Our study shows that interracial couples’ odds of living with any aging parents fall in between those of their same-race counterparts. Among White/Black couples, the risk of living with the parents of the White spouse exceeds the risk of living with the parents of the Black spouse. Among Black/Hispanic and White/Hispanic couples, the risk of living with the parent of the Hispanic spouse exceeds the risk of living with the parents of the other partner. Our findings detract from the view that intermarrying systematically weakens ties with the family of origin and reduces access to family support. Nonetheless, it also shows that race/ethnicity is an important correlate of interracial couples’ family exchange behavior.

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“…Multiracial people, particularly those with a white parent, tend to experience poverty at levels more consistent with their white ancestry than their non-white ancestry, although research indicates that not all markers of household wellbeing fit perfectly as an average between the component racial groups of the parents (Bratter and Kimbro 2013). Indeed, these disparities begin at birth, with multiracial infants of mixed white/nonwhite couples having lower birth weights than their white peers, although these patterns are shaped by which parent is white and most research often focuses solely on comparisons with Black/white biracial children (Choi and Reichman 2019). Multiracial children born to cohabitating but unmarried parents also experience higher levels of family instability relative to their monoracial counterparts (Choi and Goldberg 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Multiracial students face pressure to form a monoracial identity or to continually defend their non-conforming multiracial identity (Gasser 2002). These pressures can result in negative health outcomes (Choi and Reichman 2019) and displacement from racialized communities (Gasser 2002).…”

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Educational Trajectories and Outcomes of Multiracial College Students

Mitchell

Warren

2022

Social Sciences

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Although higher education research has identified racial/ethnic disparities in college enrollment and degree completion, few studies investigate the educational outcomes of multiracial students relative to monoracial student groups. This paper begins to fill this gap and aims to open a conversation about the precarious state of data collection and empirical research on the growing multiracial population. Using several waves from the Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS) and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we center multiracial college students in our empirical analysis, which investigates the following questions: (1) how do enrollment rates and patterns of enrollment based on institutional type differ, if at all, for multiracial college students relative to monoracial college students? and (2) how does retention and overall degree attainment differ between multiracial and monoracial groups of college students? Our analyses identify several trends that suggest that multiracial people enroll in college at significantly lower rates, are more likely to enroll in private colleges and universities and four-year institutions, and are less likely to earn bachelor’s degrees relative to other racial groups.

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The health of biracial children in two-parent families in the United States

Cited by 6 publications

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Multiracial Children's Experiences of Family Instability

Multiracial Children's Experiences of Family Instability

Interracial Couples and Intergenerational Coresidence: The Role of Race/Ethnicity

Educational Trajectories and Outcomes of Multiracial College Students

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