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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Building Economic Self-Sufficiency

  • Carolyn Heinrich and Timothy Smeeding
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2014
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Kids, Marriage, and Work: Behavioral Decisions Around the EITC

  • Sarah Halpern-Meekin
  • Podcasts
  • 2014
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Whose money matters?

  • Alexandra Killewald
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014
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Fathering after Deployment

  • Tova Walsh
  • Podcasts
  • 2014
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Family complexity in America

  • Marcia J. Carlson and Daniel R. Meyer
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014
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Family structure and children’s behavior

  • Rebecca Ryan, Amy Claessens, and Anna J. Markowitz
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014
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The cost of breaking up

  • Laura Tach and Alicia Eads
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014
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Neither here nor there: Incarceration and family instability

  • Kristin Turney
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014
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Family Change: It’s Complicated

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2014
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Family Change, Father Involvement, and Child Food Insecurity

  • Daniel Miller
  • Podcasts
  • 2013