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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Stepparents and half-siblings: Family complexity from a child’s perspective

  • Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Steven T. Cook
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2011
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Disadvantaged fathers and their families

  • Timothy M. Smeeding, Irwin Garfinkel, and Ronald B. Mincy
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2011
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Promising antipoverty strategies for families

  • Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Deborah Reed
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2010
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Changing Poverty and Changing Antipoverty Policies

  • Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger
  • Discussion Paper
  • 2009
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Children’s Living Arrangements in Divorced Wisconsin Families with Shared Placement

  • M. L. Krecker, P. Brown, M. S. Melli, and L. Wimer
  • Report
  • 2003