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

Family Structure by Region 2006 (Revised)
This data report from the General Social Survey (cycle 20) examines family structure by province and region.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Statistics Canada • August 2007

Disruptive Events during the High School Years and Educational Attainment
This paper examines how high school attendance, dropout rates, and the pursuit of post-secondary education are affected by family structure and family relocation.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Institute for Research on Poverty • August 01, 1998

Father Absence and Youth Incarceration
This study examines the effect of father absence on youths' risk of arrest and incarceration.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Center for Research on Child Wellbeing • March 01, 2004

Moving On: The expansion of the family network after parents separate
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, this paper explores the expansion of family networks after parental separation as adults enter new unions.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Department of Justice Canada • 2005

Linking Family Change, Parents’ Employment and Income and Children’s Economic Well-Being: A Longitudinal Perspective
Using data from the first two phases of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, this paper examines family income before and after family transitions such as separation and divorce.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Department of Justice Canada • 2003

Family Change and Early Sexual Initiation
This paper investigates the influence of family structure on the age of a female's first sexual encounter.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Institute for Research on Poverty • July 01, 1998

Are Married Parents Really Better for Children? What Research Says About the Effects of Family Structure on Child Well-Being
This paper examines the impact of family structure on child development, well-being, family income and overall child welfare.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Centre for Law And Social Policy • May 01, 2003

The Effect of Step-Children on Childbearing Intentions and Births
This paper looks at how the presence of stepchildren affects parents' fertility and childbearing decisions.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Center for Family Demographic Research • 2000

Contemporary American Stepparenting: Integrating Cohabiting and Nonresident Stepparents
This paper redefines the tradtional conceptions of stepfamily and stepparent by including cohabitating relationships as a subcategory of stepfamilies.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Center for Family and Demographic Research • 2000

Divorce and Separation: The Outcomes for Children
This paper summarizes past research on the impact of parental divorce and separation on children's socio-economic status, academic achievement, emotional development and behavioural outcomes.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation • June 01, 1998

Men's Financial Expenditures on Genetic Children and Stepchildren from Current and Former Relationships
This study demonstrates that men tend to invest less money in their step-children from former relationships than they do in their biological children.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Population Studies Center • September 2001

Family Structure and Children’s Educational Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts, and Descriptive Regressions
This paper investigates the impact of family structure on children's educational outcomes by comparing the academic performance of children in traditional and blended families.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Population Research Center • May 2000 (Revised March 2004)

Lone Parenthood and Family Disruption: The Outcomes for Children
This booklet reviews past research pertaining to the impact of family structure on child outcomes looking specifically at stepfamilies, single-parent homes, widowhood, and remarriage.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Family Policy Studies Center • January 1994

The Changing Character of Stepfamilies: Implications of Cohabitation and Nonmarital Childbearing
This study discusses the definition of family in the context of stepfamily formation.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Center for Demograpgy and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison • March 1994

Does Family Structure Affect Children’s Educational Outcomes?
This paper discusses the relationship between family structure and children's educational outcomes by comparing two-parent, single-parent, and blended families.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• The MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy • April 2002

Diverse Family Living Situations and Child Development: A Multilevel Analysis Comparing Longitudinal Evidence From Britain and the United States
This paper examines the impact of family structure on child development, behaviour, and educational achievement.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Oxford University Press • 2003

Adopted Children and Stepchildren: 2000
This paper looks at the number of adopted children and stepchildren in the US, and examines characteristics such as race, age, gender, disabilities, poverty status, and living arrangements.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• US Census Bureau • October 2003

Strengths in Families: Accentuating the Positive
This paper explores the definition, state, structure, and function of the family, as well as variations on the traditional family unit, including a discussion of stepfamilies, marriage relationships, and homosexual parenting.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• The Vanier Institute of the Family • 1998

Family Structure and Children’s Educational Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts, and Descriptive Regressions
This paper provides evidence that children in stepfamilies fare significantly worse than those raised in traditional married families and similarly to those in single parent families on measures of educational achievement.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• The Population Research Center • March 2004

Child Maltreatment and Family Structure
This paper examines the incidence of different types of child abuse and maltreatment in single parent families and step-families.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• National Child Protection Clearinghouse, Australian Institute of Family Studies • Winter 1996

Pathways to Stepfamily Formation in Europe: Results from the FFS
This study compares pathways to stepfamily formation in 19 European countries and discusses the multiple ways in which this type of family can be formed.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research • October 2002

Childrearing Responsibility and Stepfamily Fertility in Finland and Austria
This study of childbearing in stepfamilies examines future fertility and the effects of partners having shared children or children from previous unions.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research • January 2003

Childbirth in East and West German Stepfamilies: Estimated Probabilities from Hazard Rate Models
This paper studies childbearing in German stepfamilies in which there is already at least one child from an earlier partnership.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research • August 08, 2002

Children and Stepfamilies: A Snapshot
This report discusses the impact that being part of a stepfamily has on children's developmental outcomes and parent relationships.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Center for Law and Social Policy • November 01, 1998

Beyond the Two-Parent Family: How Teenagers Fare in Cohabiting Couple and Blended Families
This paper explores the relationship between teens' living arrangements and their behavioural outcomes.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• The Urban Institute • May 01, 2001

A Closer Look at Changes in Children’s Living Arrangements in Low-Income Families
This paper examines changes in the living arrangements of American children between 1999 and 2001, and discusses the stability of various family structures and their impact on child well-being.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Johns Hopkins University • February 20, 2000

Congress's Role in Improving Juvenile Delinquency Data
This paper critiques both the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, and Congress for their failure to include family breakdown in their research and data on delinquency.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• The Heritage Foundation • March 10, 2000

How Do Prior Experiences in the Family Affect Transitions to Adulthood?
This paper examines the impact of family structure on child outcomes, including educational attainment, sexual activity, and premarital union formation and childbearing.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison • July 02, 1998

Step-Parenting in the 1990's
This paper discusses the impact of stepfamilies on well-being, and finds that this type of household, on average, experiences greater economic hardship and more stress and conflict than first-families.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation • June 01, 1998

Her, His and Their Children: Childbearing Intentions and Births in Stepfamilies
This paper studies the fertility intentions and decisions of stepparents, as well as the factors that influence such decisions, such as family size and parenthood status.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison • May 29, 2002

Growing up With Mom and Dad? The Intricate Family Life Courses of Canadian Children
This paper looks at the changing compositions and structures of Canadian families and examines the rise in cohabiting, single-parent, and blended households.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Statistics Canada • July 01, 1998

Family Portrait (2003 Version)
This book contains a compilation of information on various family-related issues such as marriage, adoption, cohabitation, divorce, unmarried childbearing, childcare, stepfamilies, and teen issues.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• Family Research Council • August 01, 2002

The Long Term Effects for Children of Different Parental Backgrounds
This paper examines the impact of childhood experiences relating to family structure on adulthood views on parenting, family life and expectations, satisfaction, and emotional well-being.
• Category: Family Structure > Stepfamilies
• The Joseph Rowntree Foundation • July 01, 1997