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.
Living on the Periphery: Poor Urban Men
- Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- January 2016
The Mismatch between Family Law and Nonmarital Families
- Clare Huntington
- Podcasts
- November 2015
Does Foster Care Lower School Achievement?
- Lawrence Berger, Maria Cancian, Jennifer Noyes, and Vanessa Rios-Salas
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- October 2015
Family Complexity, Inequality, and Public Policy
- Daniel Meyer
- Podcasts
- August 2015
Roles and Resources in Complex Families
- Lawrence Berger
- Podcasts
- October 2014
Building Economic Self-Sufficiency
- Carolyn Heinrich and Timothy Smeeding
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2014
Kids, Marriage, and Work: Behavioral Decisions Around the EITC
- Sarah Halpern-Meekin
- Podcasts
- August 2014
Whose money matters?
- Alexandra Killewald
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2014
Fathering after Deployment
- Tova Walsh
- Podcasts
- May 2014
Family complexity in America
- Marcia J. Carlson and Daniel R. Meyer
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2013-2014) 2014