Family Structure

Family structure refers to the composition of children and parental figures in a family. Family complexity is used to describe families that are not composed only of two biological parents and their joint children and in which neither parent has experienced multiple-partner fertility.

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Living on the Periphery: Poor Urban Men

  • Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2016
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The Mismatch between Family Law and Nonmarital Families

  • Clare Huntington
  • Podcasts
  • 2015
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Does Foster Care Lower School Achievement?

  • Lawrence Berger, Maria Cancian, Jennifer Noyes, and Vanessa Rios-Salas 
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2015
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Family Complexity, Inequality, and Public Policy

  • Daniel Meyer
  • Podcasts
  • 2015
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Roles and Resources in Complex Families

  • Lawrence Berger
  • Podcasts
  • 2014
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Building Economic Self-Sufficiency

  • Carolyn Heinrich and Timothy Smeeding
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2014
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Kids, Marriage, and Work: Behavioral Decisions Around the EITC

  • Sarah Halpern-Meekin
  • Podcasts
  • 2014
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Whose money matters?

  • Alexandra Killewald
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014
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Fathering after Deployment

  • Tova Walsh
  • Podcasts
  • 2014
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Family complexity in America

  • Marcia J. Carlson and Daniel R. Meyer
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014