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.

Stepparents and half-siblings: Family complexity from a child’s perspective
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Steven T. Cook
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2011

Disadvantaged fathers and their families
- Timothy M. Smeeding, Irwin Garfinkel, and Ronald B. Mincy
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2011

Promising antipoverty strategies for families
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Deborah Reed
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- August 2010

Changing Poverty and Changing Antipoverty Policies
- Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger
- Discussion Paper
- April 2009

Children’s Living Arrangements in Divorced Wisconsin Families with Shared Placement
- M. L. Krecker, P. Brown, M. S. Melli, and L. Wimer
- Report
- June 2003