Moving home in the early years: what happens to children in the UK?

Gambaro, Ludovica; Joshi, Heather

doi:10.14301/llcs.v7i3.375

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“…Therefore, attrition may be related to both parental separation and poverty. Children may be more difficult to follow after separation because they are more likely to experience a residential move, especially if their mother repartners (Gambaro and Joshi, 2016). Moreover, parents experiencing more precarious living conditions may be less willing to answer questions on their child's living conditions, which might impact item non-response.…”

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The Long-Term Effects of Parental Separation on Childhood Multidimensional Deprivation: A Lifecourse Approach

Leturcq

Panico

2019

Soc Indic Res

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A large literature has documented the impact of parental separation on children's financial poverty. However, income has been increasingly criticized as an indicator of childhood living conditions and deprivation. In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework and adapt existing measures of adult multi-domain deprivation to produce childhood deprivation indicators that are age-specific and child-centred. These new indicators allow within-individual, longitudinal analyses to measure the impact of a shock on childrens living conditions. We apply this method to consider the long term effects of parental separation on childhood deprivation, considering four dimensions of children's lives: leisure; material conditions; parenting behaviours and routines; and basic material goods. We track children over the first decade of life by using a nationally representative UK cohort of over 18,000 children. Using a fixed-effects framework, we find that, while the increase in income poverty after parental separation is large, the impact on childhood deprivation was more mixed. Our results suggest that, while facing strong financial constraints, separated parents cut back on normative but costly activities such as holidays and outings, but attempt to maintain children's basic material circumstances and their day-today parenting and routines, at least around separation. However, heterogeneous effects exist, suggesting that parents' pre-separation social and economic capital may play an important role. This approach therefore adds more precision and nuance to our understanding of the processes around parental separation and its impacts on children. Keywords child poverty • deprivation indicators • family instability • longitudinal methods • United Kingdom

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The Long-Term Effects of Parental Separation on Childhood Multidimensional Deprivation: A Lifecourse Approach

Leturcq

Panico

2019

Soc Indic Res

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“…Adverse associations of child outcomes with such factors as having a teenage mother, being born after an unintended pregnancy, living with two parents who were cohabiting rather than married, or moving house, have all been statistically explained by differences in socioeconomic background (respectively, Hawkes & Joshi, 2012;De la Rochebrochard & Joshi, 2013;Crawford, Goodman, Greaves & Joyce, 2012;Gambaro & Joshi, 2016).…”

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The Millennium Cohort Study: the making of a multi-purpose resource for social science and policy

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Fitzsimons²

2016

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“…With respect to family composition and family change, the role of mobility in the early years has been identified as a critical issue in understanding how young children are impacted by residential changes (Beck et al, 2016;Gambaro and Joshi, 2016). Frequent mobility generated by changes in family structures (separation or re-marriage), or persistent unemployment and unstable housing situations, often generates negative outcomes for children.…”

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Residential mobility in context: Interpreting behavior in the housing market

Clark

2017

PapRevSoc

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Residential mobility is the process whereby individuals and households adjust their locations in cities. These moves, in the aggregate, change neighborhoods as well as providing specific housing outcomes for households and families as a result of the move. The literature on residential change has evolved from cross-sectional studies of family structure and their housing circumstances, to life course analyses of the motivations for moving, the contexts in which the moves occur, and the intersection of life course change and housing choice. The combined work of demographers, geographers, economists and sociologists has provided a much clearer and more nuanced understanding of behavior in the housing market than was possible with cross-sectional analyses. This paper reviews the evolution of life course approaches to residential mobility and discusses the current state of the research literature. Keywords: mobility; life course; housing markets; neighborhoods; residential sorting * Some of the material in this paper was originally prepared for a seminar on housing hosted Resumen. La movilidad residencial en su contexto: interpretar el comportamiento en el mercado residencialLa movilidad residencial es el proceso por el cual los individuos y hogares ajustan su localización en la ciudad. Estos cambios, de manera agregada, transforman los barrios al tiempo que producen efectos específicos sobre los hogares y las familias. La literatura sobre cambios de residencia ha evolucionado desde los planteamientos transversales sobre la estructura familiar y las condiciones de su domicilio hacia análisis desde la perspectiva del curso vital de las razones para mudarse, los contextos en que ocurren los cambios, y la intersección de los cambios vitales y la elección residencial. El trabajo combinado de demógrafos, geógrafos, economistas y sociólogos ha proporcionado una comprensión más clara y matizada de lo que era posible con análisis transversales. Este artículo revisa la evolución de los acercamientos a la movilidad residencial desde el curso vital, y debate el estado de la cuestión en la literatura de investigación.

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Moving home in the early years: what happens to children in the UK?

Cited by 24 publications

References 33 publications

The Long-Term Effects of Parental Separation on Childhood Multidimensional Deprivation: A Lifecourse Approach

The Long-Term Effects of Parental Separation on Childhood Multidimensional Deprivation: A Lifecourse Approach

The Millennium Cohort Study: the making of a multi-purpose resource for social science and policy

Residential mobility in context: Interpreting behavior in the housing market

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