Unequal effects of disruptive events

Disruptive events have significant consequences for the individuals and families who experience them, but these effects do not occur equally across population. While some groups are strongly affected, others few consequences. We review recent findings on inequality in of disruptive events. consider heterogeneity based socioeconomic resources, race/ethnicity, likelihood experiencing disruption, contextual factors such as normativity event particular social settings. focus micro-level affecting specific families, including divorce, job loss, home loss eviction, health shocks deaths, violence incarceration, also refer to macro-level recession natural disasters. describe patterns variation that suggest a process resource disparities cumulative disadvantage versus those reflect impact non-normative unexpected shocks. Finally, we methodological considerations when examining effect