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Tøssebro, Jan; Wendelborg, Christian – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
Background: This study addresses family structure in families raising a child with disabilities in Norway. The aims are to add to the literature on termination of parental relationships and to explore family research topics that are rarely discussed in disability research, such as cohabitation versus marriage and repartnering. Methods:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Structure, Disabilities, Children
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Ryan, Rebecca M. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Although voluminous research has linked nonresident fatherhood to riskier sexual behavior in adolescence, including earlier sexual debut, neither the causality of that link nor the mechanism accounting for it has been well-established. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979--the Young Adult Survey (CNLSY-YA), the present…
Descriptors: Fathers, Family Structure, Adolescents, Sexuality
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Schramm, David G.; Marshall, James P.; Harris, Victor W.; Lee, Thomas R. – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
This article explores the relationship between religiosity, denominational homogamy, religiosity homogamy, and marital adjustment. Using a statewide sample of spouses in first marriages (N = 1,394) and remarriages (N = 601), the authors find that within-group differences in religiosity, denominational homogamy, and religiosity homogamy are not as…
Descriptors: Marital Satisfaction, Religion, Marriage, Correlation
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Bastaits, Kim; Ponnet, Koen; Mortelmans, Dimitri – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
Research suggests that high parental support and control improves children's well-being. However, a large part of these studies have focused on the parenting of married parents. Research on parenting after a divorce, mainly has focused on parenting of divorced mothers, with few exceptions concentrating primarily on non-residential fathers.…
Descriptors: Family Structure, Child Rearing, Divorce, Fathers
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Chu, C. Y. Cyrus; Xie, Yu; Yu, Ruoh Rong – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011
Using recent survey data from the Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD) on 1,655 married persons born in 1964-1976 in southeastern China and Taiwan, we studied coresidence with elderly parents using a multinomial probit model for coresidence type and an ordered probit model for residential distance. The study yielded four findings: (a) Patrilocal…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Older Adults, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Halpern-Meekin, Sarah – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
This study examines whether high school relationship and marriage education can affect students' relationship skills and if effects vary between sites having mandated and self-selected course participation. Based on an original data set (n = 222), results show that course exposure can result in a significant, positive change in students'…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disadvantaged Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Marriage
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Perry, Armon R.; Harmon, Dana K.; Leeper, James – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
Increasing fathers' involvement with their children has become a priority in recent years. Marriage promotion programs have been offered as the primary vehicles for increasing paternal involvement. Although marriage is likely to provide fathers with increased access and opportunity for paternal involvement, much less is known about the ways in…
Descriptors: Marriage, Comparative Analysis, Fathers, African Americans
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Guzzo, Karen Benjamin; Hayford, Sarah R. – Journal of Family Issues, 2010
Research on nonmarital fertility has focused almost exclusively on unmarried mothers, due in part to a lack of fertility information for men. Cycle 6 of the National Survey of Family Growth allows exploration of nonmarital fertility for both genders.The authors compare the characteristics of unmarried first-time mothers (n = 2,455) and fathers (n…
Descriptors: Mothers, One Parent Family, Marriage, Gender Differences
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Berger, Lawrence M.; Carlson, Marcia J.; Bzostek, Sharon H.; Osborne, Cynthia – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2008
This paper uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,098) to examine differences in the parenting practices of four types of resident fathers, defined by their biological relationship to a focal child and their marital status with regard to the focal child's mother. Regression results suggest that biological fathers and…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Fathers
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Day, Randal D.; Mackey, Wade C. – Journal of Divorce, 1981
Examines the use of the often quoted remarriage studies done in the 1950s and found that extreme caution should be used in presentations where redivorce is discussed. The traditional family form may not be in as much of a decline as some report. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Divorce, Family Structure, Marital Instability
Michel, Andree; Feyrabend, Francoise Lautman – J Marriage Fam, 1969
Paper presented at the 33rd annual session of the Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family, Puerto Rico, April, 1967 and at the annual meeting of the Canadian sociological and anthropological association, Ottawa, June, 1967.
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Family Attitudes, Family Planning
Petersen, Karen K. – J Marriage Fam, 1969
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Relationship
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Anyan, Stacey E.; Pryor, Jan – Children & Society, 2002
Presented vignettes describing groupings of people to 232 New Zealand adolescents to examine their perceptions of families. Found that 80 percent or more endorsed married and cohabiting families, lone-parent households, and extended family members as families. Found few differences according to adolescents' own family structure. Chinese…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Cohabitation, Comparative Analysis
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MacDonald, William L.; DeMaris, Alfred – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1995
Examines hypothesis that stepfamilies experience more marital conflict than do biological families. Measured remarriage's and stepchildren's impact on marital conflict frequency. Findings suggest that remarriage and stepchildren are not necessarily associated with more frequent marital conflict and that stepchildren's effect varied depending on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Child Behavior, Children
Ingoldsby, Bron B., Ed.; Smith, Suzanna, Ed. – 1995
Covering contemporary Third World as well as Western families, this teaching text addresses topics essential for developing a multicultural perspective on the family. It is an ideal text for comparative family courses and includes exercises (as well as exercise guidelines for instructors) developed to challenge students' existing viewpoints and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
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