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.
TANF turns 20
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- March 2017
Which Families Are Poor and Why?
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- September 2016
Vetting and Letting: Cohabiting Stepfamily Formation for Low-Income Black Families
- Megan Reid
- Podcasts
- April 2016
Living on the Periphery: Poor Urban Men
- Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- January 2016
The Mismatch between Family Law and Nonmarital Families
- Clare Huntington
- Podcasts
- November 2015
Does Foster Care Lower School Achievement?
- Lawrence Berger, Maria Cancian, Jennifer Noyes, and Vanessa Rios-Salas
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- October 2015
Family Complexity, Inequality, and Public Policy
- Daniel Meyer
- Podcasts
- August 2015
Roles and Resources in Complex Families
- Lawrence Berger
- Podcasts
- October 2014
Building Economic Self-Sufficiency
- Carolyn Heinrich and Timothy Smeeding
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2014
Kids, Marriage, and Work: Behavioral Decisions Around the EITC
- Sarah Halpern-Meekin
- Podcasts
- August 2014