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.

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Single-Parent-Family policy

  • Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2017
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What Does it Cost to Raise a Child?

  • Harry Brighouse
  • Podcasts
  • 2017
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TANF turns 20

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2017
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Which Families Are Poor and Why?

  • Poverty Fact Sheet
  • 2016
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Vetting and Letting: Cohabiting Stepfamily Formation for Low-Income Black Families

  • Megan Reid
  • Podcasts
  • 2016
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Living on the Periphery: Poor Urban Men

  • Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2016
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The Mismatch between Family Law and Nonmarital Families

  • Clare Huntington
  • Podcasts
  • 2015
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Does Foster Care Lower School Achievement?

  • Lawrence Berger, Maria Cancian, Jennifer Noyes, and Vanessa Rios-Salas 
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2015
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Family Complexity, Inequality, and Public Policy

  • Daniel Meyer
  • Podcasts
  • 2015
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Roles and Resources in Complex Families

  • Lawrence Berger
  • Podcasts
  • 2014