How Broken Families Rob Children of Their Chances for Future Prosperity
This paper discusses the economic benefits of marriage and the impact of family composition on children.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• The Heritage Foundation • June 11, 1999

Marriage and Welfare Reform: The Overwhelming Evidence that Marriage Education Works
This article looks at the effects of the 1996 welfare reform law to strengthen and increase the number of two-parent families in the United States.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• The Heritage Foundation • October 25, 2002

The Necessity of Marriage
This paper addresses why marriage is important for the foundation of a healthy, stable society.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• The Heritage Foundation • October 20, 2003

For Richer or Poorer? Marriage as an Anti-Poverty Strategy in the United States
This paper provides a critique of policies that promote marriage as a route to economic stability for single mothers.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Center for Research on Child Wellbeing • July 01, 2003

The Dynamics of Housing Affordability
This report examines housing affordability in Canada by measuring the percentage of Canadians who spend 30 percent or more of their income on housing.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Statistics Canada • January 2008

Stepfamilies: Understanding and responding effectively
This brief examines the difficulty in identifying and calculating the growing number of stepfamilies in Australia.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Australian Family Relationship Clearinghouse • 2007

Determinants of Welfare Entry and Exit by Young Women
This paper demonstrates that parental reliance on welfare, family and personal attitudes towards education, family structure, academic ability, and ethnicity are all factors that affect the likelihood of welfare dependency and the rate of welfare entry and exit.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Institute for Research on Poverty • July 01, 1996

The Changing Role of Child Support among Never-Married Mothers
This paper shows that more never-married mothers are receiving child support than were in the past, although it continues to be relatively uncommon.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Institute for Research on Poverty • October 01, 1999

How Will Welfare Reform Affect Childbearing and Family Structure Decisions?
This paper provides evidence that reforms to the welfare system have been moderately successful both in encouraging marriage and in discouraging divorce, avoidance of child support, living separately from relatives, and childbearing while unmarried or on welfare.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Institute for Research on Poverty • October 2001

Work, Welfare, and Family Structure: A Review of the Evidence
This paper looks at a number of major American welfare reform programs, including Assistance for Families with Dependent Children, Medicaid, and food stamps.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Institute for Research on Poverty • August 01, 1996

How Does Adolescent Fertility Affect the Human Capital and Wages of Young Women?
This paper investigates the impact of teenage childbearing on the educational attainment, employment, and income of young women.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Institute for Research on Poverty • September 01, 1997

The Effect of Peer Support on Postpartum Depression: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
This study provided mothers at risk for post-partum depression with peer support over the telephone and compared depressive symptoms in this group with those in a control group.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Canadian Psychiatric Association • March 01, 2003

Single motherhood and mental health: implications for primary prevention
This paper provides an extensive survey of research done on the health of single mothers.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Canadian Medical Association • March 01, 1997

Junior Comes Back Home: Trends and Predictors of Returning to the Parental Home
This paper examines patterns among young adults returning home.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Statistics Canada • December 15, 2006

One out of Every Five: Teenage Motherhood and Subsequent Childbearing
This paper looks at the factors that influence subsequent childbearing among teenagers and examines the impact that this has on both the mother and the children.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Center for Law and Social Policy • August 01, 1998

When Two Become One: The Unique Nature and Benefits of Marriage (Second Edition)
This publication looks at marriage from a biblical perspective and discusses the changes in Canadian marriage policy.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada • 2006

Cohabitation and Marriage: How are they related?
This paper reports on marriage and cohabitation trends in Canada and provides a comparative analysis of these family structures.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• The Vanier Institute of the Family • September 2005

Custody Arrangements and the Development of Emotional or Behavioral Problems in Children
This paper looks at the problems children may experience living in a post-divorce custody arrangement as opposed to those children living with both parents (married or common-law).
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Human Resources Development Canada • October 01, 1998

The Legacy of Parental Divorce: Social, Economic and Demographic Experiences in Adulthood
This paper discusses the impact of childhood parental divorce and explores the extent to which divorce causes negative, long-term, educational, emotional, psychological, financial, and relational outcomes for children of divorce.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion • October 01, 1997

The Divorced and Who Divorces?
This paper looks at the background and characteristics of the divorced population in Britain in order to better understand the breakdown of marriage.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion • May 1998

Life-Span Adjustment of Children to their Parents' Divorce
This article examines a variety of factors that determine how well children cope with the breakup of their parents' marriage.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• The Future of Children • Spring 1994

The Role of the Father After Divorce
This article discusses the importance of and challenges to creating a meaningful role for fathers after a divorce.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• The Future of Children • Spring 1994

Cohabitors’ Prerequisites for Marriage: Individual, Relationship, and Sociocultural Influences
This paper examines subjective relational dynamics in a cohabitation arrangement.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Center for Family and Demographic Research • 2004

Comparing the Lifestyles of Homosexual Couples to Married Couples
This paper provides statistics to demonstrate the differences between committed homosexual couples and married heterosexual couples.
• Category: Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Adults
• Family Research Council • March 01, 2004

Union Type and Adult Self-Esteem
This paper demonstrates that cohabitors have significantly lower levels of self-esteem than married individuals.
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