Effect on Preschoolers' Literacy when Never-Married Mothers Get Married
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2283160 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jay Fagan (0000-0002-0042-3981, Temple College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1001-1014 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Marriage and the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2445 • E-ISSN: 1741-3737 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00860.x |
| OpenAlex | W2060526216 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 39 |
Healthy Marriage programs in the United States aim to promote marriage primarily among low-income individuals. There is little research assessing whether children fare better when their never-married mothers get married. The present study uses the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey–Birth Cohort to test the hypothesis that children have higher literacy scores when their mothers who had never married when the children were 9 months old had married when the children were 48 months old (N = 2,800). A small positive effect was found, but only when marriage was compared with cohabitation. The association between marriage and literacy is partially explained by mothers' increased household income. The children of mothers who were single noncohabitants or married and then divorced or separated were also doing better with respect to literacy than children of cohabiting mothers. Future research is needed to better understand how cohabitation is associated with negative effects on children's literacy
Association (psychology · Cohabitation · Cohort · Developmental psychology · Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study · Literacy · Longitudinal study · Marital status · Political science · Population · Sociology · Test (biology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |