Family Structure

Family structure refers to the composition of children and parental figures in a family. Family complexity is used to describe families that are not composed only of two biological parents and their joint children and in which neither parent has experienced multiple-partner fertility.

Podcast Icon

Angela Guarin: Do Low-Income Noncustodial Fathers “Trade” Earlier Families for New Ones?

  • Angela Guarin
  • Podcasts
  • 2020
Fast Focus Research/Policy Brief Icon

Involved fathers play an important role in children’s lives

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2020
Fast Focus Research/Policy Brief Icon

Many Rural Americans Are Still “Left Behind”

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2020
Webinar Icon

Strengthening Relationships Between Noncustodial Fathers and the Mothers of Their Children

  • Tova Walsh and Darryl Davidson
  • Webinar
  • 2019
Fast Focus Research/Policy Brief Icon

Understanding benefit cliffs and marginal tax rates

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2019
Report Icon

Final Impact Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED)

  • Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Robert G. Wood
  • Report
  • 2019
Report Icon

Final Impact Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED): Technical Supplement

  • Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, Lawrence M. Berger, Angela Guarin , Leslie Hodges, Katherine Anne Magnuson, Lisa Klein Vogel, Melody Waring, Robert G. Wood, Quinn Moore, and April Yanyuan Wu
  • Report
  • 2019
Podcast Icon

Lenna Nepomnyaschy on the Role of Fathers in Reducing Inequality in Child Outcomes

  • Lenna Nepomnyaschy
  • Podcasts
  • 2019
Focus and Focus+ Icon

Child poverty in rural America

  • David Rothwell and Brian C. Thiede
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2018
Podcast Icon

Brad Wilcox on the “Success Sequence” for Millennials

  • Brad Wilcox
  • Podcasts
  • 2018