Research on children's participation in housework is scarce and mainly descriptive. Drawing on theories of gender role socialization, the authors identify how children's contributions are influenced by how their parents allocate domestic tasks. Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, which include annual information on time dedicated to housework for all family members, they analyze a sample of 2,293 sons and daughters born 1976 to 1995 who live with their parents at ages 18 and 19 and whose parents reported their own time spent on housework when the children were aged 8 to 11 years. The authors find that parents' housework division when children were ages 8 to 11 affects the likelihood of sons (and less so, daughters) participating in such tasks, even after controlling for parental education, the mother's work attachment, time constraints, and parents' division of housework in adolescence. Analysis of siblings provides additional support for our hypothesis.

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Greater use of condoms within marriage would help limit the spread of HIV in sub‐Saharan Africa. Using data from the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP), the authors examined the influence that the fidelity norm and the traditional association between marriage and reproduction have on condom use with a spouse. The sample included 749 married couples. The authors used latent class analysis to estimate a “true,” or latent measure of condom use by couples based on the individual reports of husbands and wives and to explore the reasons why individuals tend to misreport their use of condoms. They found that married couples with more children were more likely to use condoms and that having been informed by experts about AIDS prevention at home induced men and women to overreport condom use within marriage in a survey but may not necessarily increase the extent to which condoms are used.

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Actualmente la cohabitación no matrimonial es aceptada socialmente como un contexto familiar adecuado en el que tener y criar hijos en España; sin embargo, las separaciones de parejas cohabitantes no quedan registradas oficialmente. Este estudio compara la provisión de manutención de hijos por parte de padres no residentes en parejas anteriormente casadas y cohabitantes. El análisis se basa en datos de la Encuesta Española de Fecundidad 2018. Los resultados de los modelos de regresión logística confirman que la probabilidad de recibir la pensión alimenticia es significativamente más baja entre las mujeres anteriormente cohabitantes que entre las previamente casadas, una vez controladas las diferencias composicionales. Este es el primer estudio que examina diferencias en la adopción de responsabilidades económicas con los hijos entre padres no residentes anteriormente casados y cohabitantes.