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Family Change: It’s Complicated

  • January 2014
  • PB1
  • Link to PB1-FamilyChange (PDF)
  • Link to PB1-FamilyChangeResources (PDF)

This inaugural issue of Focus on Policy summarizes recent research on the ways in which the American family has changed over the past half century. Changes include how couples form partnerships, have children, earn a living, and struggle to get by.

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Child Poverty, Children, Employment, Family & Partnering, Family Structure, Low-Wage Work, Multiple-Partner Fertility

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