Fathers’ Imprisonment and Mothers’ Multiple-Partner Fertility

Fathers’ Imprisonment and Mothers’ Multiple-Partner Fertility

We consider the intersection between two striking U.S. trends: dramatic increases in the imprisonment of fathers and increases in the proportion of mothers who have children with more than one partner (multiple-partner fertility, or MPF). Using matched longitudinal administrative data that provide unusually comprehensive and accurate information about the occurrence and timing of imprisonment, ...

Factors Associated with Multiple - Partner Fertility among Fathers

Late adolescent girls' relationships with parents and romantic partner: the distinct role of mothers and fathers.

The distinct role of mothers and fathers in shaping the quality of relationships with romantic partner was explored. One hundred and twenty 17-year old girls were observed during their senior year in high school with each of their parents during a Revealed differences task [Allen, J. P., Hauser, S. T., Bell, K. L., Boykin, K. A., & Tate, D. C. (1994). Autonomy and relatedness coding system manu...

Multiple-Partner Fertility: Incidence and Implications for Child Support Policy

Workforce Development and the Institute for Research on Poverty. Any views expressed in this report are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the sponsoring institutions. The authors thank Patricia Brown, CSDE Data Manager, and programming staff of the Institute for Research on Poverty for their outstanding programming and construction of the data files used for this analysis. We th...

Mothers’ and Fathers’ Influences on Status Attainment

This paper reports on the relative influences of mother’s education on sons’ and daughters’ educational attainment, relative to father’s influences. Following the framework of Korupp et al. (2000, 2002), we explore to what extent parental influences are dominated by fathers or mothers, the highest status parent, and/or are specific to the gender of the child (sex-role model). The research quest...