Family & Partnering

Family life and economic status are closely intertwined. Fertility, family formation, family structure, parental relationship dissolution, multiple-partner fertility, and family complexity patterns vary by socioeconomic status, as do parenting behaviors and the quality of children’s home environments. The family contexts in which children are born and raised are, in turn, associated with their own economic and social well-being throughout their lives.

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Family Change, Father Involvement, and Child Food Insecurity

  • Daniel Miller
  • Podcasts
  • 2013
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The Role of Economic Support in Child Maltreatment Prevention

  • Kristen Shook Slack
  • Webinar
  • 2013
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Disadvantaged Men as Fathers

  • Lonnie Berger
  • Webinar
  • 2012
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Multiple-Partner Fertility and Disadvantaged Families

  • Marcy Carlson
  • Podcasts
  • 2012
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The Wisconsin Mothers with Young Children Study (WiscMoms): Report on a Pilot Survey of Formal and Informal Support of Children in Complex Families

  • Lawrence Berger, Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Jessica Price
  • Report
  • 2012
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The Implications of Complex Families for Poverty and Child Support Policy

  • Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer
  • Webinar
  • 2012
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Wisconsin Poverty 101

  • Anna Emmerich
  • Poverty Fact Sheet
  • 2012
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Disconnected Americans

  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2012
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The dynamics of disconnection for low-income mothers

  • Pamela Loprest and Austin Nichols
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2012
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Stepparents and half-siblings: Family complexity from a child’s perspective

  • Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Steven T. Cook
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2011