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Cohabitation and Children’s Family Instability


  Author: R. Kelly Raley, Elizabeth Wildsmith
Publisher: Population Research Center
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Document Date:                  2002
Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Cohabiting Parents
Related Categories:
Family Structure > Cohabitation/Common-Law Marriage
Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Children
Family Structure > Parental Marital Status
Family Transitions > Premarital Cohabitation
 

This paper looks at the number of family transitions experienced by children in cohabiting households in order to determine the level of instability they experience.  It demonstrates that children in cohabiting families experience more instability than children in married or single-parent families.

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