The rise in children’s experience in single-parent families is well documented. However, it remains unknown whether their unmarried parents are living alone or coresiding with unmarried partners. Perhaps more importantly, it is unknown how the economic contributions of parent’s cohabiting partners influence the economic well-being of children. Using data from the recently released 1990 decennial […]

Previous research on cohabitation and child well-being has primarily used cross-sectional analyses to understand how children in cohabiting families fare vis-à-vis their counterparts in other family types. So, we know little about transitions in cohabiting families and how these transitions might affect children’s development over time. In this paper, we use the Kindergarten Cohort of […]

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 […]

California Healthy Marriages Coalition commissioned The State of California’s Unions: Marriage and Divorce in the Golden State to (1) determine how California residents view marriage, divorce and Marriage Education; (2) gain understanding about residents' marriage andrelationships, past and present, including relationship quality and family support; and (3) examine findings by demographic variables including gender, age, […]