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.
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
- October 2012
The Implications of Complex Families for Poverty and Child Support Policy
- Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer
- Webinar
- September 19 2012
Wisconsin Poverty 101
- Anna Emmerich
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- May 2012
Disconnected Americans
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2011-2012) 2012
The dynamics of disconnection for low-income mothers
- Pamela Loprest and Austin Nichols
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2011-2012) 2012
Stepparents and half-siblings: Family complexity from a child’s perspective
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Steven T. Cook
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2011
Child Support and Subsequent Nonmarital Fertility
- Yeongmin Kim, Maria Cancian, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- July 2011
Disadvantaged fathers and their families
- Timothy M. Smeeding, Irwin Garfinkel, and Ronald B. Mincy
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2011
Unmarried parents in college: Pathways to success
- Sara Goldrick-Rab and Kia Sorensen
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- March 2011
Promising antipoverty strategies for families
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Deborah Reed
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- August 2010