Custody, Access, and Child Support in Canada: Putting Children's Interests First
This consultation paper provides a forum for discussion and feedback about parenting and child support after the separation or divorce of a couple.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Department of Justice Canada • March 01, 2001

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

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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Centre for Law And Social Policy • May 01, 2003

Custody, Access, and Child Support in Canada: Report on Federal-Provincial-Territorial Consultations
From April 2001 to June 2001, the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Family Law Committee asked for feedback on how the government could improve the laws and services it provided for children of separation and divorce.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Department of Justice Canada • Fall 2001

Death and Divorce: The Long-Term Consequences of Parental Loss on Adolescents
This paper focuses on the impact of parental loss on children's futures by studying both the incomes and the marital and fertility behaviour of adults who, as adolescents, experienced parental divorce.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Statistics Canada • June 09, 1999

The Top Ten Myths of Divorce
This article briefly addresses the ten top myths about divorce and covers topics such as cohabitation, remarriage, and stepparenting, as well as the effects of divorce upon finances and children.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Rutgers State University • May 08, 2002

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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Center for Family and Demographic Research • 2000

Biological and Stepfather Investment in Children
This paper discusses the differences in the parental involvement and parenting practices of biological, stepparent, and cohabiting fathers.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Population Studies Center • April 2001

The Complexity of Fathers’ Parenting Responsibilities and Involvement with Nonresident Children
This paper examines the complexity of parenting for non-resident fathers, and looks at how the obligations and circumstances of these arrangements affect child support and visitation.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Population Studies Center • June 2001

Financial Transfers from Parents to Adult Children: Issues of Who is Helped and Why
This paper suggests that parents are more likely to help their adult children financially if they feel that their children are dependent on them, or if they feel that their children will be able to reciprocate in the future.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Population Studies Center • September 2001

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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Center for Demograpgy and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison • March 1994

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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• The Vanier Institute of the Family • 1998

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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• 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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Johns Hopkins University • February 20, 2000

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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation • June 01, 1998

Promoting Marriage as Welfare Policy: Looking at Public Role in Private Lives
This paper explores the government's use of welfare reform as a means of promoting and strengthening the institution of marriage.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• The George Washington University • February 15, 2002

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: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison • May 29, 2002

Chartier v. Chartier, [1999] 1 S.C.R. 242
This court decision aims to answer one main question: can a spouse, who has assumed the role of parent to his/her partner's child, unilaterally withdraw from that role after the union has ended in divorce.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Stepparenting
• Canada Legal Information Institute • January 28, 1999