L Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 11008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6584-3699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 921 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1943 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Rescaling the migrant gateway
We need to approach ethnically diverse urban spaces through the adoption of multiple scales of analysis, with a view to drawing out the nuances and spatial subjectivities of that process. This paper advances that agenda through a spatially forensic approach to consider how different forms of redevelopment impacted on racially diverse spaces in a context of dramatic material, economic and social change. It uses the city of Manchester, England, in …
Parent–Adult Child Relationships and Repartnering After Gray Divorce
Objectives The rise in gray divorce has catalyzed repartnering in later life. However, the antecedents of older adult repartnering remain poorly understood, particularly the potential role of adult children. A form of ambiguous loss, marital disruption often leads to family boundary ambiguity, thereby weakening family ties. We investigated whether co-residence and proximity of, frequent contact with, and downward transfers to adult children were …
Measuring family boundary ambiguity in cohabiting stepfamilies
ObjectiveOur study introduces a novel approach to gauging family boundary ambiguity using information obtained from just one household reporter. It also illuminates the strengths and challenges presented by parent pointers in federal surveys.BackgroundThe prominence of boundary ambiguity in cohabiting stepfamilies leads to significant measurement challenges, which take on greater salience as more children experience this family type.MethodDrawing…
Marital separation, reconciliation, and repartnering in later life
ObjectiveThe growth in gray divorce raises new questions about the marital dissolution process experienced by older adults. Our goal was to assess patterns of reconciliation among couples following marital separation, treating forming a union with a new partner as a competing risk.BackgroundRepartnering after a gray divorce is common, particularly among men. However, the extent to which older adults reconcile with their spouses is unknown. In lin…
Determining the Effectiveness of Interventions for the Reduction of Child Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution at Schools in England
Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) is a significant risk to human health and is particularly damaging to children as a vulnerable group. TRAP exposure near schools and on the school commute is linked to a growing number of adverse health effects, including respiratory and cardiovascular disease and can lead to (and exacerbate existing) respiratory conditions. The current study aimed to assess the effectiveness of interventions for the reduction…
Visualizing Children's Family Structure
This visualization illustrates the multidimensionality of family life among U.S. children. The authors used the 2022 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series to examine the intersection of three family structure domains: number of parents, relationship of child to parent(s), and parental union type. Even as 74 percent of children live with two parents, only 60 percent lived w…
A Cohort Comparison of Midlife Marital Quality
Marital quality has been declining among recent cohorts, but whether this pattern characterizes middle-aged and older married adults is largely unknown. The doubling of the divorce rate among persons over the age of 50 years foretells poorer quality marriages for today's midlife adults than a generation ago. Combining data on married individuals aged 50-65 years from the 1987-88 National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) and the 2013 Famil…
Union Formation Expectations Among Older Adults Who Live Apart Together in the USA
There is an ongoing debate over whether living apart together (LAT) relationships are simply long-term relationships or alternatives to cohabitation or marriage. This study examined cohabitation and marriage expectations among older adults who LAT in the United States to address the debate. The analyses also compared the marriage expectations of older adults who LAT and cohabitors. Using data from the 2011 Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), we e…
Is Variation in Biological and Residential Ties to Children Linked to Mothers’ Parental Stress and Perceptions of Coparenting
Mothers with children from prior relationships or with stepchildren may perceive greater challenges in parenting than their counterparts in less complex families. We use the Families and Relationships Study to analyze parental stress and perceptions of coparenting among cohabiting and married mothers with resident minor children ( N = 679). Compared with mothers with only shared children, parental stress and perceptions of coparenting generally d…
A Research Note on Income Pooling in Partnerships
Income pooling is a common behavior among couples. However, cohabiting and married individuals in more complex families, namely those with stepchildren, are less likely to pool incomes. Similarly, income pooling might be unlikely when there are nonresident children, who could potentially draw resources outside the household, yet prior work has largely overlooked the role of nonresident children. We take advantage of a unique data set, the Family …
Divorce Attitudes Among Older Adults
The authors used data from the 1994, 2002, and 2012 General Social Survey ( N = 1,450) to examine whether support for divorce has increased among adults aged 50 years and older. Consistent with the rise in the gray divorce rate, today's older adults were more accepting of divorce than their predecessors were two decades ago. Attitudinal change was modest between 1994 and 2002, but accelerated after 2002. The acceleration was primarily due to peri…
What's Mine Is Ours? Income Pooling in American Families
Objective: The objective of this study is to determine whether income-pooling strategies differ between married and cohabiting individuals without children, only biological children, or any stepchildren.Background: Americans are forming families in new ways via cohabitation and stepfamilies, which may have implications for resource pooling. Although a majority of married and cohabiting couples pool their incomes, little is known about the role of…
Relationship Quality Among Cohabiting Versus Married Couples
Using data from the nationally representative 2010 Married and Cohabiting Couples Survey of different-sex cohabiting and married couples, we compared the relationship quality of today's cohabitors and marrieds. Consistent with diffusion theory and recent conceptual work on the deinstitutionalization of marriage, we found that the relationship between union type and relationship quality is now bifurcated with direct marrieds reporting the highest …
Psychological Well-being Among Older Adults
Today's older adults are increasingly unmarried. Some are in cohabiting unions, others are dating, and many remain unpartnered. Unmarried older adults are at risk of poorer well-being than married older adults, but it is unclear whether older cohabitors fare worse than or similar to their married counterparts; nor have well-being differences among cohabitors, daters, and unpartnered persons been considered. Conceptualizing marital status as a con…
The Inner Geographies of a Migrant Gateway
Between the 1960s and 1990s a series of urban redevelopment projects in Manchester radically transformed ethnic settlement in the city. The ward of Moss Side, which had been a gateway for Caribbean and African immigrants, experienced repeated slum clearances in which whole communities were relocated and large tracts of housing stock were demolished and redesigned. The relationship between these physical and demographic changes has been overshadow…
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
Trends in Children's Family Instability, 1995-2010
Using data from the 1995 and 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, the authors' study examined children's family instability from birth to age 12, emphasizing variation by racial and ethnic group. Period and cohort estimates revealed little change in children's experiences of family transitions during the past decade. Family instability levels were comparable for White and Hispanic children, and this pattern persisted over time. However, th…
Vertical and horizontal approaches to the making of racial statistics in Britain
The release of data from the 2011 census fuelled a media storm over Britain's ethnic and immigrant composition, while at the same time a much less visible series of public debates developed over the scope, organization and purpose of government information-gathering centred on how the existing census could be replaced with 'Big data'. It is therefore particularly timely to explore the political choices, ontological shifts and statistical challeng…
Visions of violence in the Haitian Revolution
The images of the Haitian Revolution attributed to French painter Jean-Louis Boquet and British soldier Marcus Rainsford have been widely used by museums and historians as eyewitness depictions of key atrocities. Exploring the images and texts produced by these two artists reveals that it is highly unlikely that either was produced in situ in Saint Domingue. Both Boquet and Rainsford drew heavily on a pre-revolutionary visual corpus of landscapes…
Family Structure and Child Well-being
Although children's family lives are diverse, the measurement of children's living arrangements has lagged, focusing on the relationships of children to parents while largely ignoring sibling composition. Using data from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation (N = 23,985) the authors documented patterns of family complexity among a nationally representative sample of children ages 0-17 living in a range of family structures. They als…
Unsettled Houses
This article examines the role of material culture, particularly clothing, houses and furniture, in the lives of nonconformist Protestant missionaries in Jamaica during the first half of the nineteenth century, in relation both to the lifestyles of the missionaries and their families and their encounters with enslaved people. While these missionaries hoped to improve the lives of the slaves and help them negotiate their transition to freedom, the…
Not Just Roommates
Two Decades of Stability and Change in Age at First Union Formation
The landscape of union formation has been shifting; Americans are now marrying at the highest ages on record and the majority of young adults have cohabited. Yet little attention has been paid to the timing of cohabitation relative to marriage. Using the National Survey of Families and Households and 4 cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, the authors examined the timing of marriage, cohabitation, and unions over 20 years. As the median…
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An Immigration History of Britain
Journal Article An Immigration History of Britain: Multicultural Racism since 1800, by Panikos Panayi Get access An Immigration History of Britain: Multicultural Racism since 1800, by Panikos Panayi (Harlow: Pearson, 2010; pp. 392. £21.99). L. Brown L. Brown University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 530, February 2013, Pages 225–227, https://d…
Cohabitation versus Marriage
Using data from the 1987-1988 National Survey of Families and Households, we evaluate the extent to which cohabitation is similar to marriage. The quality of recently formed cohabiting and marital relationships among Black and White Americans ages 19 to 48 is investigated in an effort to advance our understanding of the meaning of cohabitation relative to marriage. Controlling for relationship duration and demographic characteristics of the respo…
Family Structure and Child Well-Being
Data from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families (N = 35,938) were used to examine the relationship between family structure and child well-being. I extended prior research by including children in two-biological-parent cohabiting families, as well as cohabiting stepfamilies, in an investigation of the roles of economic and parental resources on behavioral and emotional problems and school engagement. Children living in two-biological-par…
Union Transitions Among Cohabitors
Data from both waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) were used to estimate the effects of couple-level measures of cohabitors' relationship assessments and expectations on their union transitions. Although positive relationship assessments deterred separation, they did not hasten entry into marriage. Female partners' negative assessments of the relationship increased the odds of separation, whereas such reports among male…
Marriage and Child Well-Being
Over the past decade, the linkages between marriage and child well-being have attracted the attention of researchers and policy makers alike. Children's living arrangements have become increasingly diverse and unstable, which raises important questions about how and why family structure and stability are related to child outcomes. This article reviews new research on this topic, emphasizing how it can inform policy debates about the role of marri…
Two Decades of Stability and Change in Age at First Union Formation
The landscape of union formation has been shifting; Americans are now marrying at the highest ages on record and the majority of young adults have cohabited. Yet little attention has been paid to the timing of cohabitation relative to marriage. Using the National Survey of Families and Households and 4 cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, the authors examined the timing of marriage, cohabitation, and unions over 20 years. As the median…
Relationship Quality Dynamics of Cohabiting Unions
Trends in Children's Family Instability, 1995-2010
Using data from the 1995 and 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, the authors' study examined children's family instability from birth to age 12, emphasizing variation by racial and ethnic group. Period and cohort estimates revealed little change in children's experiences of family transitions during the past decade. Family instability levels were comparable for White and Hispanic children, and this pattern persisted over time. However, th…
Family Structure and Child Well-being
Although children's family lives are diverse, the measurement of children's living arrangements has lagged, focusing on the relationships of children to parents while largely ignoring sibling composition. Using data from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation (N = 23,985) the authors documented patterns of family complexity among a nationally representative sample of children ages 0-17 living in a range of family structures. They als…
Relationship Quality Among Cohabiting Versus Married Couples
Using data from the nationally representative 2010 Married and Cohabiting Couples Survey of different-sex cohabiting and married couples, we compared the relationship quality of today's cohabitors and marrieds. Consistent with diffusion theory and recent conceptual work on the deinstitutionalization of marriage, we found that the relationship between union type and relationship quality is now bifurcated with direct marrieds reporting the highest …
Residential Differences in Family Formation
We update and extend prior research on residential differences in women's family formation experiences using data from the 1995 cycle of the National Survey of Family Growth. Residential differences in the timing of family formation behaviors are examined, including first birth, first cohabitation, and first marriage. Our study emphasizes the significance of cohabitation, estimating the effect of geographic residence on type of union formation (i…
Transitions Into and Out of Cohabitation in Later Life
Cohabitation among adults over age 50 is rising rapidly, more than doubling from 1.2 million in 2000 to 2.75 million in 2010. A small literature provides a descriptive portrait of older cohabitors, but no study has investigated transitions into and out of cohabitation during later life. Drawing on demographic and life course perspectives, the authors developed a framework for conceptualizing later life union behaviors. Using data from the 1998-20…
What's Mine Is Ours? Income Pooling in American Families
Objective: The objective of this study is to determine whether income-pooling strategies differ between married and cohabiting individuals without children, only biological children, or any stepchildren.Background: Americans are forming families in new ways via cohabitation and stepfamilies, which may have implications for resource pooling. Although a majority of married and cohabiting couples pool their incomes, little is known about the role of…
Parental Strains and Rewards Among Mothers
Using data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,198), this study examines the associations between education and parental strains and rewards among mothers of young children. Findings indicate that a college degree or more is related to less parenting anxiety, but more role captivity, and less new life meaning from parenting than lower levels of education. Differences by education are partly explained by variation…
Dating Relationships in Older Adulthood
Dating in later life is likely common, especially as the proportion of older adults who are single continues to rise. Yet there are no recent national estimates of either the prevalence or factors associated with dating during older adulthood. Using data from the 2005-2006 National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, a nationally representative sample of 3,005 individuals ages 57-85, the authors constructed a national portrait of older adult …
Residential Differences in Cohabitors' Union Transitions
Using data from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, we examine residential variation in cohabiting women's union outcomes. Prior work has shown that although there are no residential differences in cohabitation, nonmetro women are more likely than others to marry directly and hold more favorable attitudes toward marriage. Building on this work, we examined residential differences in cohabiting women's union outcomes (i.e., marriage, separa…
Psychological Well-being Among Older Adults
Today's older adults are increasingly unmarried. Some are in cohabiting unions, others are dating, and many remain unpartnered. Unmarried older adults are at risk of poorer well-being than married older adults, but it is unclear whether older cohabitors fare worse than or similar to their married counterparts; nor have well-being differences among cohabitors, daters, and unpartnered persons been considered. Conceptualizing marital status as a con…
Fertility Following Marital Dissolution
Surprisingly, nearly one third of all nonmarital births in the United States are to formerly married mothers. The author uses data from the National Survey of Families and Households to investigate the level and timing of such births as well as their determinants. Discrete time-event history analyses are used to evaluate the associations between various life course factors and postmarital childbearing. The present study improves on prior research…
Here's my Story
Fathers tend to be excluded and ‘invisible’ participants in the child welfare system. We interviewed fathers with ‘looked after’ children in a child protection system in Western Canada. They wanted active roles in children's lives and to become engaged fathers, whether the children were theirs by birth or not. Their stories exposed the strategies they used to convince social workers that they were ‘good enough’ fathers. In the telling, they revea…
Divorce Attitudes Among Older Adults
The authors used data from the 1994, 2002, and 2012 General Social Survey ( N = 1,450) to examine whether support for divorce has increased among adults aged 50 years and older. Consistent with the rise in the gray divorce rate, today's older adults were more accepting of divorce than their predecessors were two decades ago. Attitudinal change was modest between 1994 and 2002, but accelerated after 2002. The acceleration was primarily due to peri…
Monuments to Freedom, Monuments to Nation
Peer-reviewed
Is Variation in Biological and Residential Ties to Children Linked to Mothers’ Parental Stress and Perceptions of Coparenting
Mothers with children from prior relationships or with stepchildren may perceive greater challenges in parenting than their counterparts in less complex families. We use the Families and Relationships Study to analyze parental stress and perceptions of coparenting among cohabiting and married mothers with resident minor children ( N = 679). Compared with mothers with only shared children, parental stress and perceptions of coparenting generally d…
Visions of violence in the Haitian Revolution
The images of the Haitian Revolution attributed to French painter Jean-Louis Boquet and British soldier Marcus Rainsford have been widely used by museums and historians as eyewitness depictions of key atrocities. Exploring the images and texts produced by these two artists reveals that it is highly unlikely that either was produced in situ in Saint Domingue. Both Boquet and Rainsford drew heavily on a pre-revolutionary visual corpus of landscapes…
Visualizing Children's Family Structure
This visualization illustrates the multidimensionality of family life among U.S. children. The authors used the 2022 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series to examine the intersection of three family structure domains: number of parents, relationship of child to parent(s), and parental union type. Even as 74 percent of children live with two parents, only 60 percent lived w…
The Inner Geographies of a Migrant Gateway
Between the 1960s and 1990s a series of urban redevelopment projects in Manchester radically transformed ethnic settlement in the city. The ward of Moss Side, which had been a gateway for Caribbean and African immigrants, experienced repeated slum clearances in which whole communities were relocated and large tracts of housing stock were demolished and redesigned. The relationship between these physical and demographic changes has been overshadow…
Parent–Adult Child Relationships and Repartnering After Gray Divorce
Objectives The rise in gray divorce has catalyzed repartnering in later life. However, the antecedents of older adult repartnering remain poorly understood, particularly the potential role of adult children. A form of ambiguous loss, marital disruption often leads to family boundary ambiguity, thereby weakening family ties. We investigated whether co-residence and proximity of, frequent contact with, and downward transfers to adult children were …
A Map of Yorktown by Joachim Du Perron, Comte De Revel
Surveys of natural radiation exposure in UK dwellings with passive and active measurement techniques
A representative sample of over 2,000 UK dwellings was monitored for a year using thermoluminescent and etchable plastic dosemeters to measure gamma-ray dose rates and radon concentrations. The survey was carried out by post. Each householder completed a questionnaire on the type of dwelling and its characteristics. These data will be used in the assessment of the factors affecting indoor exposure. The mean gamma-ray dose rates were 0.062 and 0.0…
Cohabitation versus Marriage
Using data from the 1987-1988 National Survey of Families and Households, we evaluate the extent to which cohabitation is similar to marriage. The quality of recently formed cohabiting and marital relationships among Black and White Americans ages 19 to 48 is investigated in an effort to advance our understanding of the meaning of cohabitation relative to marriage. Controlling for relationship duration and demographic characteristics of the respo…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access LUCY BROWN LUCY BROWN London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 450, February 1998, Page 214, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.450.214 Published: 01 February 1998
Fertility Following Marital Dissolution
Surprisingly, nearly one third of all nonmarital births in the United States are to formerly married mothers. The author uses data from the National Survey of Families and Households to investigate the level and timing of such births as well as their determinants. Discrete time-event history analyses are used to evaluate the associations between various life course factors and postmarital childbearing. The present study improves on prior research…
Union Transitions Among Cohabitors
Data from both waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) were used to estimate the effects of couple-level measures of cohabitors' relationship assessments and expectations on their union transitions. Although positive relationship assessments deterred separation, they did not hasten entry into marriage. Female partners' negative assessments of the relationship increased the odds of separation, whereas such reports among male…
Implications of social isolation during cancer treatment
The Great Betrayal? European Socialists and Humanitarian Relief During the Spanish Civil War
Compared to communist commitment or fascist intervention in the Spanish Civil War the reactions of European socialists to the conflict have often been described as tentative, ineffective or even a deliberate betrayal of their Spanish comrades. Such criticisms have minimised the international humanitarian aid campaign launched across Europe by socialist parties and trade unions which became one of the conflict's largest relief efforts. The dimensi…
Monuments to Freedom, Monuments to Nation
Peer-reviewed
Relationship Quality Dynamics of Cohabiting Unions
The potential of NH3, N2O and CH4 measurements following the 2001 outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in Great Britain to reduce the uncertainties in agricultural emissions abatement
Black Durham Behind the Veil
Whatever their political differences, Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois agreed that Durham, North Carolina, was the “city of cities to look for the prosperity of Negroes.” In 1911, Washington called Durham “a city of Negro enterprises,” praising its successful black-owned businesses and industries. Writing a year later, Du Bois extolled the achievement of “a new ‘group economy’” grounded in “teaching and preaching, buying and selling, emp…
Residential Differences in Family Formation
We update and extend prior research on residential differences in women's family formation experiences using data from the 1995 cycle of the National Survey of Family Growth. Residential differences in the timing of family formation behaviors are examined, including first birth, first cohabitation, and first marriage. Our study emphasizes the significance of cohabitation, estimating the effect of geographic residence on type of union formation (i…
Family Structure and Child Well-Being
Data from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families (N = 35,938) were used to examine the relationship between family structure and child well-being. I extended prior research by including children in two-biological-parent cohabiting families, as well as cohabiting stepfamilies, in an investigation of the roles of economic and parental resources on behavioral and emotional problems and school engagement. Children living in two-biological-par…
The slave family in the transition to freedom
This article provides a new vision of the 1841 debates over child mortality in Barbados by examining the crisis as the result of the prolonged struggle for control over Afro-Barbadian families formed in slavery. The eviction of children and parents from Barbados estates in 1834 and 1838 provides us with fragmentary evidence to trace the networks of extended kin and ‘visiting’ relationships which had been established by the enslaved. In freedom, t…
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Experiments in indenture
Focuses on indentured and other labour migration from Barbados to other parts of the Caribbean starting in 1863. Within the context of the sugar estate-dominated agriculture of Barbados, as well as its high population density, the author describes the policies and decisions of the governors and local assemblies regarding emigration. He points out how the sugar industry's need for labourers remained dominant in the policies, but that the drought i…
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Créole Bonapartism and Post-Emancipation Society
Residential Differences in Cohabitors' Union Transitions
Using data from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, we examine residential variation in cohabiting women's union outcomes. Prior work has shown that although there are no residential differences in cohabitation, nonmetro women are more likely than others to marry directly and hold more favorable attitudes toward marriage. Building on this work, we examined residential differences in cohabiting women's union outcomes (i.e., marriage, separa…
Pour Aider Nos Frà ̈res d'Espagne
The Spanish Civil War stirred an array of humanitarian relief campaigns in France that placed women in the front lines of popular mobilization. As communists, socialists, liberals, antifascists, feminists and pacifists, French women invoked the iconography and language of sexual difference to construct pro-Republican aid appeals as an expression of gendered social concern above party politics. Through exploring the female leaderships, organizatio…
Impact of traditional medicinal plant extracts on antiretroviral drug absorption
Cohabitation, Family and Society
Marriage and Child Well-Being
Over the past decade, the linkages between marriage and child well-being have attracted the attention of researchers and policy makers alike. Children's living arrangements have become increasingly diverse and unstable, which raises important questions about how and why family structure and stability are related to child outcomes. This article reviews new research on this topic, emphasizing how it can inform policy debates about the role of marri…
Here's my Story
Fathers tend to be excluded and ‘invisible’ participants in the child welfare system. We interviewed fathers with ‘looked after’ children in a child protection system in Western Canada. They wanted active roles in children's lives and to become engaged fathers, whether the children were theirs by birth or not. Their stories exposed the strategies they used to convince social workers that they were ‘good enough’ fathers. In the telling, they revea…
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