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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Family structure and children’s behavior

  • Rebecca Ryan, Amy Claessens, and Anna J. Markowitz
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014
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The cost of breaking up

  • Laura Tach and Alicia Eads
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014
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Neither here nor there: Incarceration and family instability

  • Kristin Turney
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014
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Family Change: It’s Complicated

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2014
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Family Change, Father Involvement, and Child Food Insecurity

  • Daniel Miller
  • Podcasts
  • 2013
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Disadvantaged Men as Fathers

  • Lonnie Berger
  • Webinar
  • 2012
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Multiple-Partner Fertility and Disadvantaged Families

  • Marcy Carlson
  • Podcasts
  • 2012
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The Wisconsin Mothers with Young Children Study (WiscMoms): Report on a Pilot Survey of Formal and Informal Support of Children in Complex Families

  • Lawrence Berger, Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Jessica Price
  • Report
  • 2012
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Disconnected Americans

  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2012
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The dynamics of disconnection for low-income mothers

  • Pamela Loprest and Austin Nichols
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2012