Fatherhood has traditionally been viewed as part of a “package deal,” where a father’s relationship with his child is contingent upon his relationship with the mother. We evaluate the accuracy of this hypothesis in light of the high rates of multiple-partnered fertility among unmarried parents using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a recent longitudinal survey of nonmarital birth...

While previous research has assumed that older persons who live with adult children do so because of their Poverty or disability, some recent evidence suggests that many of these extended households primarily benefit the child. This paper attempts to provide a better understanding of the relative contributions Of Parents and adult children who live together through detailed analysis Of data fro...

Erratum After the publication of this work [1], we became aware that the total number of being “unmarried” in Table 1 was incorrect. In the Norwegian study, marital status was originally categorized as (1) married, (2) unmarried, (3) divorced and (4) widowed. For the purpose of analysis, the variable was dichotomized as (1) married (including the original category 1) and (0) unmarried (includin...

Theoretically, a shortage of males in a local marriage market may influence the formation, quality, and trajectory of unmarried parent relationships. To test these hypotheses, I combine city-level sex ratio data from the U.S. census with microdata on unmarried couples who recently had a child from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study. A shortage of men in a marriage market is associat...

While previous research has assumed that older persons who live with adult children do so because of their poverty or disability, some recent evidence suggests that many of these extended households primarily benefit the child. This article attempts to provide a better understanding of the relative contributions of parents and adult children who live together through detailed analysis of data f...

Research on nonmarital fertility has focused almost exclusively on unmarried mothers, due in part to a lack of fertility information for men. Cycle 6 of the National Survey of Family Growth allows exploration of nonmarital fertility for both genders. We compare the characteristics of unmarried first-time mothers (n = 2,455) and fathers (n = 797), use event history techniques to model second bir...

This study was conducted to identify the factors affecting maternal– fetal attachment behaviors among unmarried pregnant women. The research subjects were 105 unmarried pregnant women who visited 15 shelters for unmarried mothers around the country. The data were collected from January to February 2015 through questionnaire survey, and were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-tests, ANOVAs,...