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Fomby, Paula; Mollborn, Stefanie; Sennott, Christie A. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010
We used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 7,686) to determine whether racial and ethnic differences in socioeconomic stress and social protection explained group differences in the association between family structure instability and three risk behaviors for White, Black, and Mexican American adolescents:…
Descriptors: Race, Delinquency, Mexican Americans, Adolescents
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Amato, Paul R.; Kane, Jennifer B. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
The authors used data from the Add Health study to estimate the effects of parents' marital status and relationship distress on daughters' early family formation transitions. Outcomes included traditional transitions (marriage and marital births) and nontraditional transitions (cohabitation and nonmarital births). Relationship distress among…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Daughters, One Parent Family, Interpersonal Relationship
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Frisco, Michelle L.; Muller, Chandra; Frank, Kenneth – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007
We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study to estimate how parents' union dissolution influences changes in adolescents' mathematics course work gains, overall grade point average, and course failure rates during a window of approximately 1 year (N = 2,629). A…
Descriptors: Parents, Marital Instability, Divorce, Adolescents