The Disparate Effects of Family Structure

Autor/in	Wasserman, Melanie
Titel	The Disparate Effects of Family Structure
Quelle	In: Future of Children, 30 (2020) 1, S.55-81 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1054-8289
Schlagwörter	Family Structure; Well Being; Children; Child Development; Gender Differences; Role Models; Parent Influence; Parenting Styles; Family Income; Parent Child Relationship; One Parent Family; Racial Differences; Individual Characteristics; Whites; Minority Groups; Time + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Child; Kind; Kinder; Kindesentwicklung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Identifikationsfigur; Familieneinkommen; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Rassenunterschied; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; White; Weißer; Ethnische Minderheit; Zeit
Abstract	In this article, Melanie Wasserman reviews the latest evidence about the causal link between family structure and children's economic and social outcomes. Going beyond the question of whether family structure affects child outcomes--a topic that's already been covered at length, including in previous Future of Children volumes--she examines how family structure differentially affects children. One important finding from recent studies is that growing up outside a family with two biological, married parents yields especially negative consequences for boys as compared to girls, including poorer educational outcomes and higher rates of criminal involvement. Wasserman describes mechanisms that may link family structure to children's outcomes, in terms of both the main effect and the differences between effects on boys and on girls. These include same-gender role models in the household and in the neighborhood, parental resources (including money, time, and more), parenting quantity and quality (with attention to how parents allocate their time to children of different genders), and the differences in how boys and girls respond to parental inputs, among other hypotheses. What can be done to ameliorate the effects of family structure on children's outcomes? Wasserman encourages policy makers to supplement the educational, parental, and emotional resources available to those children who are most at risk of experiencing the negative effects of nontraditional family structures. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution. 267 Wallace Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Tel: 609-258-6979; e-mail: FOC@princeton.edu; Web site: http://futureofchildren.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01