Family Complexity among Children in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5741791 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W D Manning (0000-0002-8063-7380), Susan L Brown (0000-0003-3350-4160), J Bart Stykes |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 654 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-65 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716214524515 |
| PMID | 25332509 |
| PMCID | PMC4200481 |
| OpenAlex | W2142805740 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 73 |
| References cited | 35 |
Researchers largely have relied on a measure of family structure to describe children's living arrangements, but this approach captures only the child's relationship to the parent(s), ignoring the presence and composition of siblings. We develop a measure of family complexity that merges family structure and sibling composition to distinguish between simple two-biological-parent families, families with complex-sibling (half or stepsiblings) arrangements, and complex-parent (stepparent, single-parent) families. Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), we provide a descriptive profile of changes in children's living arrangements over a 13-year span (1996-2009). SIPP sample sizes are sufficiently large to permit an evaluation of changes in the distribution of children in various (married, cohabiting, and single-parent) simple and complex families according to race/ethnicity and parental education. The article concludes by showing that we have reached a plateau in family complexity and that complexity is concentrated among the most disadvantaged families
Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Measure (data warehouse) · Nuclear family · Race (biology) · Sibling · Sociology · Survey of Income and Program Participation · Computer Science · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 73 |
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| Citations per year | 6,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 62 |