Family membership and household composition do not always coincide. Joint legal custody after divorce formalizes the relationship between fathers and children who live apart. Policymakers hope that explicit acknowledgment of nonresident fathers' rights and responsibilities will increase their involvement with their children. I use prospective data from the National Survey of Families and Househ...

Objective This study investigates the determinants of parental involvement in diverse types stepfamilies. Background Most research has studied married stepfather families with resident children. also includes some more recent and emerging stepfamily (e.g., living-apart-together [LAT] stepfamilies) allowing for a simultaneous examination role biological relatedness, type relationship, residence,...

Federal lawmakers are considering legislation that could result in millions more middleincome families obtaining health insurance from government. Unfortunately, the debate over expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program is divorced from the reality of who truly needs assistance and the forces that are making health insurance increasingly unaffordable. SCHIP and its larger sibli...

BACKGROUND The increase in shared physical custody in Sweden has been dramatic; 20 years ago only a small percentage of adolescents lived in shared physical custody, but currently ∼30% of the adolescents whose parents have separated or divorced divide their residence between parents. We hypothesized that living in shared physical custody or in a single-parent family is associated with a higher ...

Sociology of Education 2005, Vol. 78 (April): 144–164 144 Social scientists who have studied the family and those who have studied educational stratification have produced convincing evidence that parental divorce is negatively associated with educational success. Compared to children who live with both parents until adulthood, children from divorced families have lower educational expectations...

BACKGROUND To reduce the increasing burden of pneumonia hospitalizations, we need to understand their determinants. Being married may decrease the risk of severe infections, due to better social support and healthier lifestyle. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this population-based case-control study, we identified all adult patients with a first-time pneumonia-related hospitalization between 1994 and...

Suicide attempt (SA) is common in early adolescence and the risk may differ between boys and girls in nonintact families partly because of socioeconomic, school, and health-related difficulties. This study explored the gender and family disparities and the role of these covariates. Questionnaires were completed by 1,559 middle-school adolescents from north-eastern France including sex, age, soc...