Intergenerational Relationships and Union Stability in Fragile Families

Intergenerational Relationships and Union Stability in Fragile Families.

Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Well being Study (N= 2,656), we examined the association between intergenerational relationships and parents' union stability five years after a baby's birth. Results showed that more amiable relationships between parents and each partner's parents, and more time children spent with paternal grandparents, were associated with increased odds that pa...

Parental relationships in fragile families.

As nonmarital childbearing escalated in the United States over the past half century, fragile families--defined as unmarried couples with children--drew increased interest from researchers and policy makers. Sara McLanahan and Audrey Beck discuss four aspects of parental relationships in these families: the quality of parents' intimate relationship, the stability of that relationship, the quali...

The Effect of Media Usage on Intergenerational Devaluation and Convergence in Families in Tehran

The system of social values of any society is the result of the interaction of human beings and different generations with the social environment, which factors affect the reproduction of production and its change and evolution. Media is an essential area of social life that is closely related to fundamental value. In the process of evolution of the value system of generations under the influen...

Incarceration in fragile families.

Since the mid-1970s the U.S. imprisonment rate has increased roughly fivefold. As Christopher Wildeman and Bruce Western explain, the effects of this sea change in the imprisonment rate--commonly called mass imprisonment or the prison boom--have been concentrated among those most likely to form fragile families: poor and minority men with little schooling. Imprisonment diminishes the earnings o...

“Coparenting in Fragile Families”