Family structure and child health.

Family structure and child abuse.

Knowledge of the characteristics of family structure may be helpful to the pediatrician for predicting child abuse. During the past several decades progressive shifts from the classic family unit of two biological parents and their children to a variety of parental living arrangements have occurred. Most notable are the increases in teenage pregnancies, unmarried motherhood, divorce rates appro...

Child Poverty and Family Structure in Canada

This paper examines the relationship between family structure and child poverty in Canada over the 1981-1997 period. While recognising the many methodological and conceptual difficulties encountered in efforts to document child poverty over time, two alternate indicators are used, Statistics Canada’s official low income cut-offs, and an alternate indicator of "deep poverty”. Using the Survey of...

Family Structure and Child Well-Being: Integrating Family Complexity.

Although children's family lives are diverse, the measurement of children's living arrangements has lagged, focusing on the relationships of children to parents while largely ignoring sibling composition. Using data from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation (N = 23,985) the authors documented patterns of family complexity among a nationally representative sample of children ages ...

Family Structure and Early Child Health: Policy Implications and Directions for Future Research

Family structure and child health , a comparison of France and the UK

A large body of literature has shown marked differences in the average level of child well-being across different family structures. Findings suggest that children living with two married parents are relatively advantaged; children living with two cohabiting unmarried parents generally have slightly worse outcomes than those living with married parents; while those living with a lone parent far...