IRP Working Conference on Multiple-Partner Fertility
September 14-15, 2006, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Please note: Conference papers and presentations will be available on this Web site in fall 2007.
In fall 2006, IRP held a multidisciplinary working conference on multiple-partner fertility. The conference featured scholars at the University of Wisconsin and across the country who are documenting family complexity and multiple-partner fertility and examining the implications for the design of income-support policy, family policy, and family law.
The conference also addressed some fundamental methodological issues, including sampling ramifications and the implications of family complexity for the design of surveys and use of administrative data systems. Areas of high priority for future analysis were discussed, with particular attention to evaluations of the potential effects of healthy marriage initiatives and child support innovations on future levels of family complexity.
The organizers were Maria Cancian, IRP Director and Professor of Public Policy and Social Work, and Daniel Meyer, Professor of Social Work, IRP Affiliate, and Director of the School of Social Work.
Funding for the conference was provided by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
| IRP Working Conference on Multiple-Partner Fertility University of Wisconsin–Madison September 14–15, 2006 Agenda |
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| THURSDAY, September 14, 2006 | |
| 8:00 pm | Session 1: Research on Complicated Families and Multiple-Partner Fertility: Foundations and Future Directions |
| What's Old and New about Multiple-Partner Fertility? Elizabeth Thomson, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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| FRIDAY, September 15, 2006 | |
| 8:30-9:45 am | Session 2: Multi-Partnered Fertility and Fathers |
| Multi-Partnered Fertility among American Men Karen B. Guzzo, Lehigh University, and Frank Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania |
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| Social
Fathers, Marriage, and Child Protective Services Involvement: Evidence
from the Illinois Families Study Lonnie Berger and Kristin Slack, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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| 9:45-10:00 | Break |
| 10:00-11:45 | Session 3: Effects of Multiple-Partner Fertility |
| More Kin, Less Support: Multipartnered
Fertility and Perceived Support among Mothers Kristin Harknett, University of Pennsylvania, and Jean Knab, Princeton University |
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| Complex Families, Multiple Partner Fertility, and Families Across Households:
Implications for Marriage Promotion Efforts Rukmalie Jayakody, Penn State University, and Kristin Seefeldt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
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| The Consequences of Multi-Partnered Fertility for
Parental Involvement and Relationships Marcia Carlson, Columbia University, and Frank Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania |
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| 12:30-1:45 pm | Session 4: Multi-Partnered Fertility and Child Support Policy |
| Child Support Guidelines and Complicated Families:
An Analysis of Cross-State Variation in Legal Treatment of Multiple-Partner
Fertility Tonya Brito, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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| Alternative
Approaches to Child Support Policy in the Context of Multiple-Partner Fertility Maria Cancian and Daniel Meyer, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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| 1:45-2:00 | Break |
| 2:00-3:45 | Session 5: Assessing Current Research and Looking Ahead |
| Implications for Demography and Research on the Family Dan Lichter, Cornell University |
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| Implications for Data and Measurement Nora Cate Schaeffer, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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| Implications for Policy Matt Stagner, Urban Institute |
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