Adolescent Well-Being in Cohabiting, Married, and Single-Parent Families
Cohabitation is a family form that increasingly includes children. The authors use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to assess the well-being of adolescents in cohabiting parent stepfamilies (N = 13,231). Teens living with co-habiting stepparents often fare worse than teens living with two biological married parents. Adolescents living in cohabiting stepfamilies experience greater […]