A growing literature has documented the mostly deleterious intergenerational consequences of paternal incarceration, but less research has considered heterogeneity in these relationships. In this article, I use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,065) to estimate the heterogeneous relationship between paternal incarceration and children's problem behaviors (internali...

Volume 35,Number 3,September 2009 Adolescent pregnancy has been linked to the perpetuation of poverty across successive generations of women in a family, largely because it interrupts young women’s schooling and reduces their chances of entering the job market.1–4 From a deterministic viewpoint, the underlying hypothesis is that the children of women who became pregnant as adolescents see early...

(1) The trend in many countries, since the mid 1970s, to increased inequality and polarization of the earned income of men [Jenkins 1995; Gottschalk and Smeeding, 1997]. Although the same has often not been true for women, one might expect such trends to produce greater inequality and poverty in family incomes after taxes and transfer—but is this true and how general is this tendency? (2) The f...

We use variation in the intergenerational persistence across social assistance benefits over 18 years to study drivers of disadvantage. Young people are more likely receive if their parents received disability, caring, or single parent benefits, and less they unemployment benefits. Disparity benefit types suggests that parental bad luck has broader consequences for youth disadvantage than do pe...

Abstract Driven by two theoretical models of the resiliency framework, this paper examines compensatory and protective role interacting with peers in late adolescence inhibiting intergenerational transmission poverty into young adulthood. We suggest different effects three peer contexts, referring to specific advantages group-based friendship networks (i.e. cliques) comparison dyadic best frien...

Building upon prior research on intergenerational income mobility, we assess class effects versus racial the probability of becoming a poor adult, broken down by gender. We define effect (for each race-and-gender group) as difference between that person who was born into lowest quintile becomes and highest poor. For minority-by-gender group, using Whites baseline, is defined average differentia...

Based on a sample of matched adult children and aging parents in the rural Midwest, this study examined the effects of family relationship history on depressive symptoms among elderly parents. The study used reports from both adult children and aging parents regarding intergenerational affectional solidarity and relationship strain. Aging parents reported levels of depressed affect. Adult child...

PURPOSE To identify contextual and interpersonal factors that distinguish families in which the intergenerational transmission of maltreatment is maintained from families in which the cycle is broken. METHODS The sample was composed of 1,116 families in the United Kingdom who participated in the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study. We assessed mother's childhood history of mal...

This study tested the attachment-based intervention program Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD) in a randomized controlled trial with poor families of toddlers screened for professional's concerns about the child's caregiving environment. The VIPP-SD is an evidence-based intervention, but has not yet been tested in the context of poverty....