Nontraditional families and childhood progress through school

Rosenfeld, Michael

doi:10.1353/dem.0.0112

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“…We surmise these studies found no evidence of differences because they either examined more uniformly advantaged populations, such as planned lesbian families (Bos et al, 2007;Gartrell & Bos, 2010), or used a matched sample design to net out other associated factors (Wainright & Patterson, 2006, 2008Wainright et al, 2004). Nonetheless, previous results and those presented here suggest that any observed disparities in children's outcomes between same-sex couple and different-sex married couple families, although often quite small, are related to the negative effects of socioeconomic hardship (Rosenfeld, 2010) or family instability (Potter, 2012), factors that are disproportionately represented among unmarried families in general (Vespa et al, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 47%

Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same‐Sex Couple Families Fit?

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Denney

Kimbro

2017

J of Marriage and Family

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Increasing family diversity during the past half century has focused national attention on how children are faring in nontraditional family structures. Much of the limited evidence on children in same‐sex couple families suffers from several shortcomings, including a lack of representative data. We use the National Health Interview Survey (2004–2012) and the National Survey of Children's Health (2011–2012) to identify children in different‐sex married and cohabiting families, never and previously married single‐parent families, and same‐sex couple families. Considering important characteristics such as the child's race or ethnicity and adoption status, household socioeconomic standing, family stability, and parent health, we examine the relationship between family type and parent‐rated overall child health. The results suggest that poorer health among children in same‐sex couple as well as different‐sex cohabiting couple and single‐parent families appears to be largely the product of demographic and socioeconomic differences rather than exposure to nontraditional family forms.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 47%

Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same‐Sex Couple Families Fit?

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Denney

Kimbro

2017

J of Marriage and Family

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“…Adolescents in same-sex parented households also generally reported low levels of delinquent behavior and substance use (Wainright & Patterson, 2006). In addition, Rosenfeld (2010) analyzed data from the U.S. Census 2000 to find that differences in parental socioeconomic status accounted for most of the small gap in rates of retention across school grades between children living in households headed by heterosexual married couples and those living in households headed by stable same-sex couples. In the United Kingdom, Rivers, Poteat, and Noret (2008) examined the psychological adjustment of a subsample drawn from a UK school survey of 12-to 16-year-olds who reported living with their mothers and their same-sex partners and a matched group of pupils living with their heterosexual mothers and fathers.…”

Section: Psychological Adjustment Of Adolescent and Young Adult Offspmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socioemotional Development in Changing Families

Golombok

Tasker

2015

Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science

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Since the latter part of the 20th century, dramatic changes have taken place to the structure of the family such that the traditional nuclear family headed by a heterosexual married couple is now in the minority. This chapter begins with a description of these changes and some of the key factors involved. The consequences of different family contexts for parent–child relationships and children's socioemotional development are then examined. These include single‐parent families, stepparent families, cohabiting parent families, families created through assisted reproductive technologies, and families headed by same‐sex parents. The specific issues and concerns raised by each family type are outlined, followed by a discussion of key empirical findings regarding parenting and child adjustment. The chapter ends by drawing on research relating to children in these different family forms to examine the relative importance of family structure and family processes for children's socioemotional development. The implications for policy and practice, and directions for future research, are also discussed.

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“…First, because many studies of same-sex families rely on convenience samples, their findings are not generalizable and may overrepresent families with characteristics that are confounded with other factors related to better child outcomes (Biblarz and Stacey 2010; Gartrell and Bos 2010). Second, same-sex families may be more selective than other families because their children are more likely to come from adoption (often from foster care), from artificial insemination, or through divorce from an opposite-sex partner and subsequent partnership with a new stepparent (Lavner et al 2012; Potter 2012; Rosenfeld 2010). Third, quantitative research on child outcomes in same-sex families makes assumptions about the types of parenting investments made in different- and same-sex families without directly testing these assumptions, often because the data do not allow for the study of parenting (Biblarz and Stacey 2010; Gartrell and Bos 2010; Rivers et al 2008; Wainright et al 2004).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Research Note on Time With Children in Different- and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families

2015

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Public debate on same-sex marriage often focuses on the disadvantages that children raised by same-sex couples may face. On one hand, little evidence suggests any difference in the outcomes of children raised by same-sex parents and different-sex parents. On the other hand, most studies are limited by problems of sample selection and size, and few directly measure the parenting practices thought to influence child development. This research note demonstrates how the 2003–2013 American Time Use Survey (n = 44,188) may help to address these limitations. Two-tier Cragg’s Tobit alternative models estimated the amount of time that parents in different-sex and same-sex couples engaged in child-focused time. Women in same-sex couples were more likely than either women or men in different-sex couples to spend such time with children. Overall, women (regardless of the gender of their partners) and men coupled with other men spent significantly more time with children than men coupled with women, conditional on spending any child-focused time. These results support prior research that different-sex couples do not invest in children at appreciably different levels than same-sex couples. We highlight the potential for existing nationally representative data sets to provide preliminary insights into the developmental experiences of children in nontraditional families.

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Nontraditional families and childhood progress through school

Cited by 151 publications

References 52 publications

Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same‐Sex Couple Families Fit?

Family Diversity and Child Health: Where Do Same‐Sex Couple Families Fit?

Socioemotional Development in Changing Families

A Research Note on Time With Children in Different- and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families

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