Married people enjoy better physical and mental health than those who are not married (Schoenborn, 2004), and the children of married parents experience better health than do children raised in single-parent families (for reviews,
, as well as Francene Barbour, Joan Gutierrez, Patti Vinci, and Jenny Smith at the Survey Operations Center and all of the Mathematica field and telephone staff who collected the data. The research brief also benefited from careful editing by Betty Teller. We are also grateful for the contributions of our partners at Juarez and Associates and the Educational Testing Service. Most of all, we offer our gratitude to the staff, families and children of the 60 FACES 2009 programs across the country, who once again opened their doors and shared their time with us.
The authors would like to express their appreciation to our Project Officer Maria Woolverton and other federal staff at OPRE and the Office of Head Start. We thank the Mathematica team, including
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