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Cohabitation; Family Income; Foreign Countries; Marriage; Puerto Ricans; Resource Allocation
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The rise of cohabitation and the growing share of births to cohabiting couples have led to speculation that the boundary between marriage and cohabitation is blurring. Examines this issue with an analysis of the financial arrangements of fathers of mainland Puerto Rican children. Reveals that married fathers are more likely than cohabiting fathers to pool their income. (Contains 38 references, 4 tables, and 1 appendix.) (GCP)
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Cohabitation; Marital Instability; Marital Satisfaction; Marriage; Predictor Variables
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Examines the relationship between premarital cohabitation and marital dysfunction a sample spouses in two marriage cohorts: those married between 1964 and 1980 (when cohabitation was less common) and those married between 1981 and 1997 (when cohabitation was more common). Spouses in both cohorts who cohabited prior to marriage reported poorer marital quality and greater marital instability. (Contains 45 references and 2 tables.) (GCP)
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Child Welfare; Cohabitation; Economic Status; Family Income; Poverty
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Social support from kin has been discussed as an important feature of family life among Puerto Rican families. This study examines the association between kinship support, family organization, and adolescent adjustment in Puerto Rican families. (Author)
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2003-06-00 |
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Census Figures; Child Welfare; Cohabitation; Employed Parents; Employment Level; Extended Family; Family Income; Family Structure; Grandparents; Health Insurance; Immigrants; Labor Force; Mothers; One Parent Family; Poverty; Residential Patterns; Socioeconomic Status; Welfare Services
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As part of the 2002 Current Population Survey, this report presents information on several characteristics of children, covering different aspects of their lives. It focuses on demographic characteristics of the child population of the United States and family living arrangements, including single parent families, cohabiting parent families, and the presence of "coresident" grandparents; parents' and children's labor force participation, featuring new estimates of children living with "stay-at-home" fathers and mothers; and the economic status of children's families, including participation in public assistance programs and health insurance coverage of children. Finally, the distribution of the child population by their nativity status and that of their parents illustrates the diversity of the youngest segment of the U.S. population. Overall, children living with two parents were consistently more economically advantaged than children living in other types of living arrangements. Even among children living with two parents, 9 percent lacked health insurance, 8 percent were living below the poverty level, and 4 percent lived in households receiving food stamps. Children in two parent families generally had greater access to more financial resources and greater amounts of parental time. They were also more likely to participate in extracurricular activities, progress more steadily in school, and have more supervision over their activities. (Contains 9 tables and 27 footnotes.) (SM)
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2003-05-00 |
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Child Care; Children; Cohabitation; Comparative Analysis; Cross Cultural Studies; Developed Nations; Divorce; Family (Sociological Unit); Family Work Relationship; Foreign Countries; Fringe Benefits; Leaves of Absence; Marriage; Poverty; Public Policy
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Within the last 50 years, the work-family-household arrangements upon which social policy systems in industrial nations were formulated have disappeared. This briefing paper examines how social policies of the United States, Japan, Germany, Italy, and France have responded. The paper is presented in two major sections. The first section describes family policies in each country concerning parental leave, child benefits/family allowances, child care, marriage/cohabitation, and divorce. The second section discusses the mixed effects of maternity leave on womens employment, the lack of a relationship between fertility and maternity leave and fertility and cash benefits, and factors that complicate the relationship between countries' social spending and child poverty. Job-protected maternity leave is described as the most basic entitlement reflecting public acknowledgment of the economic necessity of working motherhood. Analyses suggest that fertility rates do not seem responsive to cash benefits or other policies, such as extended maternity leave, that function as wages for motherhood. In countries where child care provisions are not widely available, lengthy paid leaves have the effect of bringing women into the home for long periods of time. The most important role of cash benefits is to reduce child poverty, as illustrated by patterns in the U.S., France, and Germany. The paper concludes by asserting that Western European nations family policy can be divided into two types, one in which the social welfare system provides a comprehensive array of universal family benefits and services, and the other in which benefits are nonuniversal and accompanied by higher child poverty rates. The United States fits neither of the European patterns and is characterized by several contradictions contributing to the lack of political support for families. (Contains 98 references.) (KB)
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