Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition

Diverging destinies: how children are faring under the second demographic transition.

In this article, I argue that the trends associated with the second demographic transition are following two trajectories and leading to greater disparities in children's resources. Whereas children who were born to the most-educated women are gaining resources, in terms of parents' time and money, those who were born to the least-educated women are losing resources. The forces behind these cha...

Diverging Destinies 1 Diverging Destinies: Maternal Education and the Developmental Gradient in Time with Children*

Using data from the 2003-2007 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS), we compare mothers’ (N = 6,640) time spent in four parenting activities across maternal education and child age subgroups. We test the hypothesis that highly educated mothers not only spend more time in active child care than less educated mothers, but that they alter the composition of that time to suit children’s developmental ne...

How are safety-net providers faring under Medicaid managed care?

Children in Foster Homes: How Are They Faring?

Overview Every year, public agencies place a substantial number of children in foster care after child welfare officials have determined that the parents of these children are either unable or unwilling to care for them. Most of these children are placed in foster homes, either with relatives (“kinship” care) or under the care of unrelated adults in family foster homes. Many of these children s...

How are Immigrant Children in Sweden Faring? Mean Income, Affluence and Poverty Since the 1980s

This article presents new research on income-based child indicators for immigrant children from 17 different national backgrounds and children of parents born in Sweden observed during the 3-year periods 1983-85, 1995-97 and 2008-10. This research examines mean household income, representation at the top of the income distribution and relative poverty differ for immigrant children from the corr...