Kathleen E Kiernan
Biographic Data
| ID | 199945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen E Kiernan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Kiernan |
| SIGNATURE | KIERNAN K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | City, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 492 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Impact of ethnic density on adult mental disorders
Poverty, family resources and children's early educational attainment
This study uses longitudinal data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study to show the extent to which episodic and more persistent poverty in early childhood and the lack of other family resources disadvantage children at the start of their school careers in terms of whether they have achieved the target indicator of ‘good level of achievement’ on the Foundation Stage Profile. Positive parenting is shown to be an important contributor to school achie…
Gender differences in educational attainment
There are gender differences in educational attainment amongst British children and there is evidence that these differences emerge early in life. In this study we investigate whether boys’ and girls’ early educational attainment levels are similarly related to disadvantage in the family environment. This study uses survey data from the Millennium Cohort Study linked with the teachers Foundation Stage Profile assessment for children in the primar…
Ethnic density effects on maternal and infant health in the Millennium Cohort Study
Poverty, Maternal Depression, Family Status and Children's Cognitive and Behavioural Development in Early Childhood
Improving children's lives is high on the UK policy agenda. In this study for a recent birth cohort of UK children we examine how three aspects of parental resources - income, mother's mental well-being and family status - in early childhood enhance or compromise their children's cognitive and behavioural development. As well as examining how these three aspects of parental resources separately and jointly affect children's well-being, we also en…
Economic deprivation, maternal depression, parenting and children's cognitive and emotional development in early childhood1
This study uses data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study to examine the extent to which economic circumstances in infancy and mother's mental well-being are associated with children's cognitive development and behaviour problems at age 3 years, and what part parenting behaviours and attitudes play in mediating these factors. The analyses derived from Structural Equation Modelling show that economic deprivation and maternal depression separately a…
Understanding social exclusion
This text explores the issue of social exclusion, considering its measurement, main determinants, and ways in which it may be reduced. The editors show how a focus on the topic may alter the relevant policy questions by fostering debate in government
Delayed Parental Divorce
This study compares children who experienced divorce in childhood with those who were young adults when their parents divorced to differentiate between long-term effects of divorce resulting from preexisting factors, including the child's behavioral problems and psychological status as well as the family's economic circumstances, and those resulting from divorce itself. We used National Child Development Study data on 11,409 British children born…
Parental divorce and partnership dissolution in adulthood
From a longitudinal survey of a British cohort born in 1958 this study finds that, by age 33, off-spring of parents who divorced are more likely to have dissolved their first partnerships. This finding persists after taking into account age at first partnership, type of first partnership (marital, pre-marital cohabiting union, and cohabiting union), and indicators of class background and childhood and adolescent school achievement and behaviour p…
Becoming a Young Parent
Teenage fertility rates in the UK are amongst the highest in Europe and have not altered significantly in the last 15 years, but the proportion of births outside marriage has risen rapidly. In this study we used longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) to investigate the social, economic and educational backgrounds of young parents. The analysis showed there to be striking variations in the probabilities of becoming youn…
Parental Divorce during Childhood
It is well established that young people whose parents divorced or experienced marital breakdown during their childhood are likely to enter into first partnerships and into parenthood earlier than those whose parents remained married. In this paper using data from the British National Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles Survey we examine how far the timing of first coitus plays a role in the genesis of this demographic behaviour for children of divor…
The Long-Term Effects of Parental Divorce on the Mental Health of Young Adults
Parental Divorce in Childhood and Demographic Outcomes in Young Adulthood
We investigated the long-term effects of parental divorce in childhood on demographic outcomes in young adulthood, using a British longitudinal national survey of children. Our analyses control for predisruption characteristics of the child and the family, including emotional problems, cognitive’ achievement, and socioeconomic status. The results show that by age 23, those whose parents divorced were more likely to leave home because of friction,…
Cohabitation, Extra-Marital Childbearing and Social Policy
The Impact of Family Disruption in Childhood on Transitions Made in Young Adult Life
From the life histories of a British cohort born in 1958 we examine whether the timing of educational, occupational, and demographic transitions differed for children who grew up with both natural parents, and children who experienced the dissolution of their parents' marriage, either through death or divorce, and whose remaining parent did or did not remarry. Bereaved children were no more likely than children brought up with both natural parent…
Longitudinal Studies of Effects of Divorce on Children in Great Britain and the United States
National, longitudinal surveys from Great Britain and the United States were used to investigate the effects of divorce on children. In both studies, a subsample of children who were in two-parent families during the initial interview (at age 7 in the British data and at ages 7 to 11 in the U.S. data) were followed through the next interview (at age 11 and ages 11 to 16, respectively). At both time points in the British data, parents and teachers…
Transitions in Young Adulthood in Great Britain
The passage from adolescence to adulthood is a multi-faceted and complex process often extending over a period of years from the mid-teens to the mid to late twenties. No one single event marks the attainment of adult status, but it usually involves changes from economic dependence upon parents to economic independence and from participation in the family of origin to establishment of one's own family. Becoming an adult usually involves a number …
Who remains childless?
Who are the men and women who are childless in their mid-30s? Life history data for a British cohort born in 1946 show that age at marriage and marital breakdown were clearly associated with childlessness. Women who were only children were more likely to be childless than those with siblings. Further, early menarcheal age, being highly qualified and having a high status occupation were indirectly related to childlessness. For men, particularly am…
Who Remains Celibate?
Who are the men and women who are single in their mid-30s? This study, which uses life history data for a British cohort born in 1946, shows that an important minority are ‘handicapped’ and these adults are cared for primarily by their families, in particular by elderly parents. Celibates tend to be more introverted, ambitious and to have older marrying parents than their ever-married peers. Single women differ from single men. The women are more…
The British Family
Trends in family characteristics in Britain are discussed using data from official and other published sources. Separate consideration is given to marriage patterns, particularly marriage age and marriage postponement; the rise in consensual unions; fertility and illegitimacy; divorce; single parent families; and location of children under age 18. The effects of the employment situation on families as well as the future of social policies are als…
Age at Marriage
Changes in marriage patterns in the United Kingdom over time are reviewed. Each successive cohort of women born between 1920 and 1940 married sooner than the preceding cohort. This trend culminated with the cohorts born in the 1940s all of whom had remarkably similar age at marriage patterns which were the youngest ever recorded since civil registration began. In analysis of the 1946 cohort three factors were found to affect age at marriage direc…
Teenage Marriage and Marital Breakdown
The risk of marriage breakdown for teenage brides is substantially greater than for women who marry later. From the life histories of a British cohort born in 1946, we show that teenage brides frequently come from less advantageous family backgrounds, have received less education and are in occupations of a lower status than those who marry later. Such pre-marital factors did not distinguish between teenage marriages that survived and those that …
The Age at which Childbearing Starts--A Longitudinal Study
The age at which childbearing starts - a longitudinal study
What characteristics differentiate between men and women who start their families at different ages? In this study we identify characteristics in their childhood, adolescence and early adult life of men and women who begin childbearing at different ages for a British post-war birth cohort which has been followed up from birth to the present time. From the variables identified as influencing age at first birth, a set of the best predictor variable…
Bastardy and its Comparative History
Economic deprivation, maternal depression, parenting and children's cognitive and emotional development in early childhood1
This study uses data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study to examine the extent to which economic circumstances in infancy and mother's mental well-being are associated with children's cognitive development and behaviour problems at age 3 years, and what part parenting behaviours and attitudes play in mediating these factors. The analyses derived from Structural Equation Modelling show that economic deprivation and maternal depression separately a…
Parental Divorce in Childhood and Demographic Outcomes in Young Adulthood
We investigated the long-term effects of parental divorce in childhood on demographic outcomes in young adulthood, using a British longitudinal national survey of children. Our analyses control for predisruption characteristics of the child and the family, including emotional problems, cognitive’ achievement, and socioeconomic status. The results show that by age 23, those whose parents divorced were more likely to leave home because of friction,…
The Impact of Family Disruption in Childhood on Transitions Made in Young Adult Life
From the life histories of a British cohort born in 1958 we examine whether the timing of educational, occupational, and demographic transitions differed for children who grew up with both natural parents, and children who experienced the dissolution of their parents' marriage, either through death or divorce, and whose remaining parent did or did not remarry. Bereaved children were no more likely than children brought up with both natural parent…
Becoming a Young Parent
Teenage fertility rates in the UK are amongst the highest in Europe and have not altered significantly in the last 15 years, but the proportion of births outside marriage has risen rapidly. In this study we used longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) to investigate the social, economic and educational backgrounds of young parents. The analysis showed there to be striking variations in the probabilities of becoming youn…
Parental Divorce during Childhood
It is well established that young people whose parents divorced or experienced marital breakdown during their childhood are likely to enter into first partnerships and into parenthood earlier than those whose parents remained married. In this paper using data from the British National Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles Survey we examine how far the timing of first coitus plays a role in the genesis of this demographic behaviour for children of divor…
Parental divorce and partnership dissolution in adulthood
From a longitudinal survey of a British cohort born in 1958 this study finds that, by age 33, off-spring of parents who divorced are more likely to have dissolved their first partnerships. This finding persists after taking into account age at first partnership, type of first partnership (marital, pre-marital cohabiting union, and cohabiting union), and indicators of class background and childhood and adolescent school achievement and behaviour p…
Delayed Parental Divorce
This study compares children who experienced divorce in childhood with those who were young adults when their parents divorced to differentiate between long-term effects of divorce resulting from preexisting factors, including the child's behavioral problems and psychological status as well as the family's economic circumstances, and those resulting from divorce itself. We used National Child Development Study data on 11,409 British children born…
Poverty, family resources and children's early educational attainment
This study uses longitudinal data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study to show the extent to which episodic and more persistent poverty in early childhood and the lack of other family resources disadvantage children at the start of their school careers in terms of whether they have achieved the target indicator of ‘good level of achievement’ on the Foundation Stage Profile. Positive parenting is shown to be an important contributor to school achie…
Poverty, Maternal Depression, Family Status and Children's Cognitive and Behavioural Development in Early Childhood
Improving children's lives is high on the UK policy agenda. In this study for a recent birth cohort of UK children we examine how three aspects of parental resources - income, mother's mental well-being and family status - in early childhood enhance or compromise their children's cognitive and behavioural development. As well as examining how these three aspects of parental resources separately and jointly affect children's well-being, we also en…
Ethnic density effects on maternal and infant health in the Millennium Cohort Study
Teenage Marriage and Marital Breakdown
The risk of marriage breakdown for teenage brides is substantially greater than for women who marry later. From the life histories of a British cohort born in 1946, we show that teenage brides frequently come from less advantageous family backgrounds, have received less education and are in occupations of a lower status than those who marry later. Such pre-marital factors did not distinguish between teenage marriages that survived and those that …
The Age at which Childbearing Starts--A Longitudinal Study
Age at Marriage
Changes in marriage patterns in the United Kingdom over time are reviewed. Each successive cohort of women born between 1920 and 1940 married sooner than the preceding cohort. This trend culminated with the cohorts born in the 1940s all of whom had remarkably similar age at marriage patterns which were the youngest ever recorded since civil registration began. In analysis of the 1946 cohort three factors were found to affect age at marriage direc…
Gender differences in educational attainment
There are gender differences in educational attainment amongst British children and there is evidence that these differences emerge early in life. In this study we investigate whether boys’ and girls’ early educational attainment levels are similarly related to disadvantage in the family environment. This study uses survey data from the Millennium Cohort Study linked with the teachers Foundation Stage Profile assessment for children in the primar…
Cohabitation, Extra-Marital Childbearing and Social Policy
Transitions in Young Adulthood in Great Britain
The passage from adolescence to adulthood is a multi-faceted and complex process often extending over a period of years from the mid-teens to the mid to late twenties. No one single event marks the attainment of adult status, but it usually involves changes from economic dependence upon parents to economic independence and from participation in the family of origin to establishment of one's own family. Becoming an adult usually involves a number …
The British Family
Trends in family characteristics in Britain are discussed using data from official and other published sources. Separate consideration is given to marriage patterns, particularly marriage age and marriage postponement; the rise in consensual unions; fertility and illegitimacy; divorce; single parent families; and location of children under age 18. The effects of the employment situation on families as well as the future of social policies are als…
The age at which childbearing starts - a longitudinal study
What characteristics differentiate between men and women who start their families at different ages? In this study we identify characteristics in their childhood, adolescence and early adult life of men and women who begin childbearing at different ages for a British post-war birth cohort which has been followed up from birth to the present time. From the variables identified as influencing age at first birth, a set of the best predictor variable…
Teenage motherhood—associated factors and consequences—the experiences of a british birth cohort
Women who bear a child in their teens differ in their childhood, adolescent and adult experiences from their peers who delay childbearing until later ages. Within the group of teenage mothers the background characteristics associated with and the consequences of pregnancy status at first birth are discussed.
Bastardy and its Comparative History
The Age at which Childbearing Starts--A Longitudinal Study
The age at which childbearing starts - a longitudinal study
What characteristics differentiate between men and women who start their families at different ages? In this study we identify characteristics in their childhood, adolescence and early adult life of men and women who begin childbearing at different ages for a British post-war birth cohort which has been followed up from birth to the present time. From the variables identified as influencing age at first birth, a set of the best predictor variable…
Teenage Marriage and Marital Breakdown
The risk of marriage breakdown for teenage brides is substantially greater than for women who marry later. From the life histories of a British cohort born in 1946, we show that teenage brides frequently come from less advantageous family backgrounds, have received less education and are in occupations of a lower status than those who marry later. Such pre-marital factors did not distinguish between teenage marriages that survived and those that …
Age at Marriage
Changes in marriage patterns in the United Kingdom over time are reviewed. Each successive cohort of women born between 1920 and 1940 married sooner than the preceding cohort. This trend culminated with the cohorts born in the 1940s all of whom had remarkably similar age at marriage patterns which were the youngest ever recorded since civil registration began. In analysis of the 1946 cohort three factors were found to affect age at marriage direc…
Who Remains Celibate?
Who are the men and women who are single in their mid-30s? This study, which uses life history data for a British cohort born in 1946, shows that an important minority are ‘handicapped’ and these adults are cared for primarily by their families, in particular by elderly parents. Celibates tend to be more introverted, ambitious and to have older marrying parents than their ever-married peers. Single women differ from single men. The women are more…
The British Family
Trends in family characteristics in Britain are discussed using data from official and other published sources. Separate consideration is given to marriage patterns, particularly marriage age and marriage postponement; the rise in consensual unions; fertility and illegitimacy; divorce; single parent families; and location of children under age 18. The effects of the employment situation on families as well as the future of social policies are als…
Who remains childless?
Who are the men and women who are childless in their mid-30s? Life history data for a British cohort born in 1946 show that age at marriage and marital breakdown were clearly associated with childlessness. Women who were only children were more likely to be childless than those with siblings. Further, early menarcheal age, being highly qualified and having a high status occupation were indirectly related to childlessness. For men, particularly am…
Longitudinal Studies of Effects of Divorce on Children in Great Britain and the United States
National, longitudinal surveys from Great Britain and the United States were used to investigate the effects of divorce on children. In both studies, a subsample of children who were in two-parent families during the initial interview (at age 7 in the British data and at ages 7 to 11 in the U.S. data) were followed through the next interview (at age 11 and ages 11 to 16, respectively). At both time points in the British data, parents and teachers…
Transitions in Young Adulthood in Great Britain
The passage from adolescence to adulthood is a multi-faceted and complex process often extending over a period of years from the mid-teens to the mid to late twenties. No one single event marks the attainment of adult status, but it usually involves changes from economic dependence upon parents to economic independence and from participation in the family of origin to establishment of one's own family. Becoming an adult usually involves a number …
The Impact of Family Disruption in Childhood on Transitions Made in Young Adult Life
From the life histories of a British cohort born in 1958 we examine whether the timing of educational, occupational, and demographic transitions differed for children who grew up with both natural parents, and children who experienced the dissolution of their parents' marriage, either through death or divorce, and whose remaining parent did or did not remarry. Bereaved children were no more likely than children brought up with both natural parent…
Cohabitation, Extra-Marital Childbearing and Social Policy
The Long-Term Effects of Parental Divorce on the Mental Health of Young Adults
Parental Divorce in Childhood and Demographic Outcomes in Young Adulthood
We investigated the long-term effects of parental divorce in childhood on demographic outcomes in young adulthood, using a British longitudinal national survey of children. Our analyses control for predisruption characteristics of the child and the family, including emotional problems, cognitive’ achievement, and socioeconomic status. The results show that by age 23, those whose parents divorced were more likely to leave home because of friction,…
Becoming a Young Parent
Teenage fertility rates in the UK are amongst the highest in Europe and have not altered significantly in the last 15 years, but the proportion of births outside marriage has risen rapidly. In this study we used longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) to investigate the social, economic and educational backgrounds of young parents. The analysis showed there to be striking variations in the probabilities of becoming youn…
Parental Divorce during Childhood
It is well established that young people whose parents divorced or experienced marital breakdown during their childhood are likely to enter into first partnerships and into parenthood earlier than those whose parents remained married. In this paper using data from the British National Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles Survey we examine how far the timing of first coitus plays a role in the genesis of this demographic behaviour for children of divor…
Parental divorce and partnership dissolution in adulthood
From a longitudinal survey of a British cohort born in 1958 this study finds that, by age 33, off-spring of parents who divorced are more likely to have dissolved their first partnerships. This finding persists after taking into account age at first partnership, type of first partnership (marital, pre-marital cohabiting union, and cohabiting union), and indicators of class background and childhood and adolescent school achievement and behaviour p…
Delayed Parental Divorce
This study compares children who experienced divorce in childhood with those who were young adults when their parents divorced to differentiate between long-term effects of divorce resulting from preexisting factors, including the child's behavioral problems and psychological status as well as the family's economic circumstances, and those resulting from divorce itself. We used National Child Development Study data on 11,409 British children born…
Understanding social exclusion
This text explores the issue of social exclusion, considering its measurement, main determinants, and ways in which it may be reduced. The editors show how a focus on the topic may alter the relevant policy questions by fostering debate in government
Economic deprivation, maternal depression, parenting and children's cognitive and emotional development in early childhood1
This study uses data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study to examine the extent to which economic circumstances in infancy and mother's mental well-being are associated with children's cognitive development and behaviour problems at age 3 years, and what part parenting behaviours and attitudes play in mediating these factors. The analyses derived from Structural Equation Modelling show that economic deprivation and maternal depression separately a…
Ethnic density effects on maternal and infant health in the Millennium Cohort Study
Poverty, Maternal Depression, Family Status and Children's Cognitive and Behavioural Development in Early Childhood
Improving children's lives is high on the UK policy agenda. In this study for a recent birth cohort of UK children we examine how three aspects of parental resources - income, mother's mental well-being and family status - in early childhood enhance or compromise their children's cognitive and behavioural development. As well as examining how these three aspects of parental resources separately and jointly affect children's well-being, we also en…
Gender differences in educational attainment
There are gender differences in educational attainment amongst British children and there is evidence that these differences emerge early in life. In this study we investigate whether boys’ and girls’ early educational attainment levels are similarly related to disadvantage in the family environment. This study uses survey data from the Millennium Cohort Study linked with the teachers Foundation Stage Profile assessment for children in the primar…
Poverty, family resources and children's early educational attainment
This study uses longitudinal data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study to show the extent to which episodic and more persistent poverty in early childhood and the lack of other family resources disadvantage children at the start of their school careers in terms of whether they have achieved the target indicator of ‘good level of achievement’ on the Foundation Stage Profile. Positive parenting is shown to be an important contributor to school achie…
Psychology (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Demography (17 works) · Developmental psychology (17 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (14 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Population (10 works) · Cohort (9 works)