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Primary and Secondary Socialization Impacts on Support for Same-Sex Marriage After Legalization in the NetherlandsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article shows, by way of multinomial logistic regression analysis of survey data, which socializing agents influence one’s attitude toward same-sex marriage after its legalization (FNB2003; N = 2,124). Parents’ attitudes toward homosexuality during one’s youth strongly affect one’s attitude toward same-sex marriage. The strongest determinant is socialization within religious institutions. Religious practice provides an explanation of the differences between members of denominations opposing same-sex marriage. A lower educational level enhances one’s probability of being neutral on abolish...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - October 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lubbers, M., Jaspers, E., Ultee, W. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Contact Between Grandchildren and Their Grandparents in Early AdulthoodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Using cross-sectional data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (N = 1,231), this study examines the relationship between grandchildren and their grandparents across early adulthood. Age is used as a proxy for change during the grandchild’s life course and the influence of major life course characteristics is examined. Results indicate that the majority of young adult grandchildren have contact with their grandparents, but the average frequency is low. Age differences in contact frequency suggest a decline in grandparent—grandchild contact across early adulthood. Multilevel analyses show that grandchildren&...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - October 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Geurts, T., Poortman, A.-R., van Tilburg, T., Dykstra, P. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Youths' Caretaking of Their Adolescent Sisters' Children: Results From Two Longitudinal StudiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The extent and experiences of youths’ caretaking of their adolescent sisters’ children have been assessed in two longitudinal studies. The first study examines the caretaking patterns of 132 Latino and African American youth during middle and late adolescence. The second study involves 110 Latino youth whose teenage sister has recently given birth. Youth are studied at 6 weeks and 6 months postpartum. In both studies, girls provide more hours of care than boys, and in Study 1, girls’ hours of care significantly increase with age whereas boys’ hours of caretaking decrease. Girls provide more care whe...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - October 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: East, P. L., Weisner, T. S., Slonim, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

The Empty Nest Syndrome in Midlife Families: A Multimethod Exploration of Parental Gender Differences and Cultural DynamicsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study explores parental health and well-being in relation to "empty nest" transitions. Focus is placed on the purported empty nest syndrome (i.e., self-reported experiences of depression and emotional distress when children leave home) and variations by parental gender and cultural background. This study is primarily based on in-depth telephone interviews conducted in 2006 and 2007 with a subsample (n = 316) of parents from four cultural groups (British, Chinese, Southern European, and Indo/East Indian) living in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia. A mixed-methodological approach is used whereby both quantitative and q...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - October 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mitchell, B. A., Lovegreen, L. D. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Perception of Adequacy of Resources With a Turkish SampleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines the validity and reliability of the Perceptions of Adequacy of Resources inventory—developed for American society—in a sample from Turkey and determines the correlations between perceived adequacy of resources and selected socioeconomic and family composition characteristics in Turkey. Participants of this study consist of employees and students at the central campus of the Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. The sample size is determined using a random sampling method (n = 500). Analysis of variance tests show significant differences (.05) in perceptions of adequacy of resources accordi...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - October 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Copur, Z., Safak, S., Terzioglu, G., Dodder, R. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

An Exploratory Study of the Nature of Family Resilience in Families Affected by Parental Alcohol AbuseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines patterns of family functioning that may protect families from the negative impact of alcohol abuse. Naturally occurring patterns of family functioning are identified and associations between these patterns and parenting, current parental alcohol use, recent family stressful events, supportive relationships outside the family, and demographic characteristics are assessed. Cross-sectional data are analyzed from racially diverse American and Canadian families (N = 674) who have at least one parent with an alcohol abuse problem and a child between ages 9 and 12 years. Cluster analyses derived from family fu...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - October 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Coyle, J. P., Nochajski, T., Maguin, E., Safyer, A., DeWit, D., Macdonald, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Special Reviewers for Volume 30Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Family Issues - October 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

The Implications of Grandparent Coresidence for Economic Hardship Among Children in Mother-Only FamiliesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Estimates suggest that more than 6 million children live with at least one grandparent. Despite evidence establishing the growing prevalence of this arrangement, limited research has focused on estimating the implications of coresidence for the economic well-being of grandchildren. Using data from the 2001 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this article examines levels of financial hardship among a particularly vulnerable group of children—those living in mother-only families. Findings suggest that children living in mother-only families that include a grandparent are substantially less likely t...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - September 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mutchler, J. E., Baker, L. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Challenges and Strategies to Maintaining Emotional Health: Qualitative Perspectives of Mexican Immigrant MothersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mexican immigrant mothers face many challenges that put them at increased risk for poor mental health. To understand the factors that lead to the development of depressive symptoms among Mexican immigrant mothers, we analyzed data from 20 qualitative, semistructured interviews. Participants included low-income, Mexican-born mothers of young children living in North Carolina. Most of the mothers in our study reported experiencing depressive symptoms after becoming parents. They expressed their symptoms as feelings of sadness, depression, loneliness, shame, and anxiety. Economic stressors contributing to their emotional heal...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - September 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ornelas, I. J., Perreira, K. M., Beeber, L., Maxwell, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Postdivorce Family Stability and Changes in Adolescents' Academic Performance: A Growth-Curve ModelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Three waves of panel data from 7,897 adolescents in the National Education Longitudinal Studies have been used to investigate whether a stabilized postdivorce family environment benefits adolescents’ academic performance trajectories. The analyses indicate that compared with peers who grow up in stable postdivorce families, children of divorce who experience additional family transitions during late adolescence make less progress in their math and social studies performance over time. Furthermore, family resource differences before and during late adolescence either partially or completely account for the less positi...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - September 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Yongmin Sun, , Yuanzhang Li, Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Parenting Self-Efficacy and Social Support in Japan and the United StatesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
To understand the conditions that give rise to parenting self-efficacy in Japan and the United States, the authors have investigated its relation to the perceptions of support available to mothers of children in the final year of preschool (N = 235; n = 121 in United States, n = 114 in Japan). Hierarchical regression analysis indicates that in both countries, women who experience higher parenting self-efficacy report more positive childhood memories of parental support and greater satisfaction with husband’s and friends’ support. Mothers in the United States are significantly more self-efficacious than are moth...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - September 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzuki, S., Holloway, S. D., Yamamoto, Y., Mindnich, J. D. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Parental Psychological Control, Psychological Autonomy, and Acceptance as Predictors of Self-Esteem in Latino AdolescentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines several key parenting variables (psychological control, psychological autonomy, and acceptance) in predicting self-esteem among Latino adolescents using structural equation modeling analyses. Nested models are tested and parental acceptance variables are omitted from the model and group gender comparisons are examined. Two variables, maternal psychological autonomy and paternal psychological control, are found to be significant predictors of Latino boys’ self-esteem, whereas psychological autonomy and control (paternal and maternal) are all significantly related to self-esteem among Latino girls. ...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - September 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bean, R. A., Northrup, J. C. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Whose Time Is It?: The Effect of Employment and Work/Family Stress on Children's HouseworkEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Children’s time use—and specifically the time they spend on household chores—is an important arena for understanding social change. However, few studies accurately depict the multiple factors influencing children’s household labor, including parent’s and children’s available time and parent’s levels of work/family stress. We address these gaps by exploring how parents’ and children’s time use and perceived stress constrains time for housework. We employ data on 3,560 households from a national survey of children’s time use. We find several factors elevate children...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - September 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gager, C. T., Sanchez, L. A., Demaris, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Military Service, Race, and the Transition to Marriage and CohabitationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth, the author investigates the relationship between military service and the transition to the first intimate union. The author argues that active-duty military service promotes marriage over cohabitation. The results are consistent with this argument, showing that active-duty members of the military are much more likely to choose marriage over cohabitation compared to reserve-duty service members, veterans, and comparable civilians. These results are particularly strong for Black men, indicating a possible relationship between working in a largely race-neutral en...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - September 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Teachman, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Husbands' and Wives' Relative Earnings: Exploring Variation by Race, Human Capital, Labor Supply, and Life StageEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article contributes to this literature by utilizing the 2000 wave of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine variation in husbands’ and wives’ relative income by race/ethnicity, human capital, labor supply, and life stage. The author finds that Black women’s disproportionate concentration among high relative earning wives can be attributed more to their greater attachment to paid labor than to their husbands’ labor supply. Nonetheless, Black women’s odds of earning as much as or more than their husbands are greater than those of White women. In addition, unlike research ...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - September 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Winslow-Bowe, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Trends in Marital Happiness by Gender and Race, 1973 to 2006Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article uses data from the 1973-2006 General Social Survey to assess the interactive impact of race and gender on marital happiness over time. Findings indicate independent and significant effects for both variables, with Whites and husbands reporting greater marital happiness than Blacks and wives. Comparing four subgroups (White husbands, White wives, Black husbands, and Black wives), the authors find that White husbands report the highest levels of marital happiness whereas Black wives report the lowest. Assessment of trends from the 1970s to the 2000s reveals a convergence among the groups: Although White husbands...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - September 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Corra, M., Carter, S. K., Carter, J. S., Knox, D. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Parental Knowledge and Its Sources: Examining the Moderating Roles of Family Structure and RaceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study aims to examine patterns of parental knowledge and its sources (adolescent reports of disclosure, parental solicitation, and parental trust) among adolescents who differ as a function of family structure and race. Data are drawn from adolescents (N = 2,374, M = 14 years, SD = 1.68) participating in a school-based study. Adolescent disclosure is a stronger predictor of parental knowledge in single-parent families and stepfamilies and in European American families. Conversely, parental solicitation is more highly related to parental knowledge in original two-parent families and in African American families. These ...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - September 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bumpus, M. F., Rodgers, K. B. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Parenting Efficacy and the Early School Adjustment of Poor and Near-Poor Black ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This short-term longitudinal study investigates whether maternal educational attainment, maternal employment status, and family income affect African American children’s behavioral and cognitive functioning over time through their impacts on mothers’ psychological functioning and parenting efficacy in a sample of 100 poor and near-poor single Black mothers and their 3- and 4-year-old focal children. Results indicate that education, working status, and earnings display statistically significant, negative, indirect relations with behavior problems and, with the exception of earnings, statistically significant, po...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - September 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jackson, A. P., Choi, J.-K., Bentler, P. M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Just Doing What They Gotta Do: Single Black Custodial Fathers Coping With the Stresses and Reaping the Rewards of ParentingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
For single African American custodial fathers, parenting stress is exacerbated by the cultural expectation that Black fathers are "normally" absent and by the clustering of stresses that Black men are more likely to encounter. This sample of African American fathers have used a repertoire of problem-focused and cognitive coping strategies, including some that are frequently considered "culturally specific." Twenty Black single custodial fathers are interviewed and their narratives are analyzed for concepts and thematic categories related to stress and coping. Their narratives indicate that certain strategies are avoided be...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - September 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Coles, R. L. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Is Religiosity Related to Better Parenting?: Disentangling Religiosity From Religious Cognitive StyleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines associations between parental religiosity and parenting in a sample of 482 mother—child and 453 father—child dyads. Parents complete a religiosity measure that allows disentangling the effects of being religious from the effects of the way in which people process religious contents (i.e., literal vs. symbolic). In addition, parent and adolescent reports of two parenting style (i.e., need support and regulation) and parental goal promotion dimensions (i.e., intrinsic vs. extrinsic and conservation vs. openness to change goal promotion) are gathered. Whereas parental religiosity is positively ...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - July 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Duriez, B., Soenens, B., Neyrinck, B., Vansteenkiste, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Adolescent Family Context and Adult Identity FormationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines the links between adolescent family context and coming to see oneself as an adult. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the authors investigate how adolescent family structure, resources, and processes together influence adult identity and whether they do so similarly for men and women. The authors find that youth in single-parent or stepparent families, but not in two-parent adoptive families, are more likely to identify as adults compared with those in two-biological-parent families. These relationships, however, are mediated by both family resources and processes. Fur...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - July 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Benson, J. E., Johnson, M. K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Grandmother--Grandchild Relationship Quality Predicts Psychological Adjustment Among Youth From Divorced FamiliesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigates maternal grandmother—grandchild relationship quality as a predictor of psychological adjustment among youth from divorced families. Three hundred twenty-four adolescents aged between 17 and 20 report on the quality of their relationships with their maternal grandmothers and their relational competence, self-efficacy, and psychological symptoms. Structural equation modeling analyses support a model in which participants' relationships with grandmothers predict their psychological adjustment. Family background (divorced vs. intact families) moderates the relationship between relationship quality...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - July 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Henderson, C. E., Hayslip, B., Sanders, L. M., Louden, L. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Sibling Relationships and Adolescents' Mental Health: The Interrelationship of Structure and QualityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study explores how sibling structure (the number of siblings, full versus step- or half-siblings, the relative age of siblings, and the gender composition of siblings) influences adolescents' mental health and whether sibling relationship quality mediates or interacts with sibling structure. Using data from the 1995 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the author performs multilevel modeling to control for siblings' sharing a joint family context. Results indicate that sibling structure has few associations with mental health and sibling relationship quality generally does not mediate (or suppress) these ...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - July 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vogt Yuan, A. S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Marital and Parent--Child Relationships in Families With Daughters Who Have Eating DisordersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study assesses and compares the relationship between parents' marital quality, parent—child relationship, and severity of eating-related psychopathology in families with and without eating disorders. Data are collected from the mother, father, and daughter of 30 families with a daughter diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia and from 30 matched healthy control families. Results indicate that parents of daughters with anorexia or bulimia have significantly lower marital quality than the control group, and the daughters report lower relationship quality with their parents. Parent—child relationships serve as a m...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - July 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Latzer, Y., Lavee, Y., Gal, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The Management of Courtesy Stigma in the Lives of Families With Teenagers With ADHDEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This qualitative study investigates how parents of adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) manage courtesy stigma in their lives. Focus groups are conducted with mothers and fathers of adolescents with ADHD who are part of a cohort study on ADHD detection and service use. Using grounded theory analysis, researchers find that parents react to external expectations put forward by various community networks, but they respond to an internalized sense of responsibility in the context of immediate family. In addition, parents' stigma management extends beyond coping with their child's disability, adding ...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - July 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Koro-Ljungberg, M., Bussing, R. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

A Qualitative Study of Families and Children Possessing Diagnoses of ADHDEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This phenomenological research study replicates R. Segal's (1998) study of 17 Canadian families. The authors interview 17 American families participating in the national support group Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder, focusing on the challenges they face in rearing children diagnosed with ADHD. Three particular themes emerge. First, the parents appear to be attuned to their children's needs and report being proactive in making adaptations and interventions when needed to accomplish family objectives. Second, the results are generally congruent with those reported by Segal. In both cases, mornings and aft...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - July 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Firmin, M. W., Phillips, A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Employee, Partner, and Mother: Woman's Three Roles and Their Implications for HealthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A large number of Western women today occupy the roles of an employee, a partner, and a mother. The three life spheres may spell contradictory expectations, demands, and rewards. The aim of this article is to examine self-rated health (SRH) and psychological distress of Finnish women aged 30 to 49 years. In addition to the number of roles the respondent occupies, the quality and the characteristics of each role are analyzed. The employee role is most strongly associated with SRH, whereas job control (jc) is the most important work characteristic. The partner role and, in more detail, support from partner determines psychol...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - June 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kostiainen, E., Martelin, T., Kestila, L., Martikainen, P., Koskinen, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Spousal Support and Work--Family Balance in Launching a Family BusinessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines whether emotional spousal support contributes to business owners' perceived work—family balance while launching a family business. Hobfoll's Conservation of Resources theory of stress is applied to 109 family business owners and their spouses. Results from structural equation models support several hypotheses. First, reports of spousal support given are strongly related to reports of support received, suggesting genuine interpersonal transactions of support. Second, the effects of spousal support are confounded until a satisfaction-with-business-communication variable is introduced, revealing comp...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - June 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gudmunson, C. G., Danes, S. M., Werbel, J. D., Loy, J. T.-C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Is It There When You Need It?: Mismatch in Perception of Future Availability and Subsequent Receipt of Instrumental Social SupportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article examines associations between belief in the future availability of instrumental support (e.g., child care, temporary housing, and financial assistance), subsequent reception of inadequate support, and depression in a socioeconomically diverse sample of new mothers. Receipt of support is associated with increased odds of experiencing a major depressive episode (MDE), whereas belief in the availability of future support appears to be protective of mental health. Mothers who experience a negative mismatch between support perception and adequate receipt of support have increased odds of experiencing an MDE compare...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - June 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Meadows, S. O. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Men Do Matter: Ethnographic Insights on the Socially Supportive Role of the African American Uncle in the Lives of Inner-City African American Male YouthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article examines the role of the African American uncle as a vital yet overlooked form of social support and social capital in the lives of adolescent African American male sons living in single-female-headed households. Research rarely examines the affective roles and functions of men in Black families; moreover, poor urban Black male youth are typically portrayed as a monolithic and homogeneous group who lack positive relationships with their biological fathers. The absence of these relationships has been correlated to numerous social problems for Black male youth—specifically, delinquency and violent behavior...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - June 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Richardson, J. B. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Racial and Gender Differences in Kin Support: A Mixed-Methods Study of African American and Hispanic CouplesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article uses qualitative and quantitative data for a recent birth cohort from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to compare kin support patterns between African Americans and Hispanics. It focuses on financial and housing support from grandparents and other kin during the transition to parenthood. Qualitative analysis (n = 122 parents) uncovers distinctions in the way African American and Hispanic parents discuss their family networks, with African Americans emphasizing relations with female kin and Hispanics emphasizing a more integrated system. Consistent with these findings, quantitative analysis (n = 2...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - June 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Haxton, C. L., Harknett, K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Does Community Resource Fit Matter to Fathers?: A Study of Employed Fathers, School and School Activity Schedules, and Well-BeingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Several scholars have noted that community resources might facilitate or hinder employees' ability to meet their many work and family demands, thereby affecting their psychological well-being. However, this is the first study to estimate these relationships using a newly developed quantitative measure of community resource fit that assesses the satisfaction of employed parents of school-aged children with key community resources. In this analysis, the authors focus on the relationships linking one aspect of community resource fit—specifically, child's school and school activity schedules, or school resource fit&mdash...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - June 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Barnett, R. C., Gareis, K. C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Higher-Order Fertility Among Urban Fathers: An Overlooked Issue for a Neglected PopulationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study provides continuing evidence that several aspects of men's lives in urban contexts have important influences on their decisions to have a higher-order birth, and suggests that policies or programs that address fertility issues should include fathers where and when feasible. (Source: Journal of Family Issues)
Source: Journal of Family Issues - June 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bronte-Tinkew, J., Ryan, S., Franzetta, K., Manlove, J., Lilja, E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Fathering at the Margins of Society: Reflections From Young, Minority, Crime-Involved FathersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study aims to broaden researchers' understanding of fatherhood by focusing on an understudied population of young, urban, minority, crime-involved fathers. Using 115 qualitative life history interviews, the authors examine fatherhood expectations, role participation, and ideals. Study fathers described very similar ideals for being fathers (e.g., providing financial resources, caring, basic needs, spending time together, and being a role model) as have been reported by less disadvantaged men. Aspects of the father's life-course trajectory and ecological niche were important for understanding individual differences in ...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - June 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wilkinson, D. L., Magora, A., Garcia, M., Khurana, A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Men's Visitation With Nonresidential Children: Do Characteristics of Coresidential and Nonresidential Children Matter?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
High rates of nonmarital fertility and divorce mean that many fathers do not live with some or all of their children. Using the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, this research compares socioeconomic and family characteristics among men with only coresidential children (n = 762), with both coresidential and nonresidential children (n = 107), and with only nonresidential children (n = 367) and examines the factors that influence men's visitation with nonresidential children. Men with only nonresidential children are more disadvantaged than men with both coresidential and nonresidential children, who in turn are more dis...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - June 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Guzzo, K. B. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Father Involvement Ideals and the Union Transitions of Unmarried ParentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores the association of the two partners' beliefs about father involvement with their likelihood of union dissolution and transition to marriage, using the first two waves of the Fragile Families survey (n = 2,303). It finds that couples are more likely to end their union when partners do not believe that fathers' caregiving is very important and when the father participates less. Partners are less likely to marry if the mother does not believe that fathers' caregiving is very important. These effects are distinct from the quality of the couple's relationship and suggest that unmarried parents who value th...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - June 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hohmann-Marriott, B. E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

When Is the Father Really There?: A Conceptual Reformulation of Father PresenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The article reconceptualizes father presence as the psychological presence of the father in the child. The article explicates the components of father presence as comprised of the following: (a) an inner sense of father in the child that orients him or her to the father; (b) the child's relationship with the personal father; (c) other family influences on father presence in the child; and (d) cultural and religious beliefs about the father found in the larger societal context, which are transmitted to the child in the family and other primary groups. The article postulates a conceptual model of father presence that consist...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - June 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Krampe, E. M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Immigrant Families Over the Life Course: Research Directions and NeedsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We present a selective review of the literature on immigrant families in the United States, focusing on key research themes and needs. A summary of secondary data sets that can be used to study immigrant families is presented as well as suggestions for future research in this increasingly important area of family research and policy. (Source: Journal of Family Issues)
Source: Journal of Family Issues - May 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Clark, R. L., Glick, J. E., Bures, R. M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Moving the Nest: The Impact of Coresidential Children on Mobility in Later MidlifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Using data from the 1992-2000 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, this article examines the relationship between the presence and age of children in the home and parental mobility in midlife. Although a substantial literature evaluates the factors affecting the timing of children leaving (and returning) home, less attention has been paid to the residential changes that parents may experience during this stage of the family life cycle. As young adults leave home, family ties that keep their parents in a place may weaken, precipitating residential change. Results indicate that parents with no children or adult children...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - May 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bures, R. M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Grandmother Coresidence, Maternal Orphans, and School Enrollment in Sub-Saharan AfricaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa has brought renewed attention to the role of grandmothers as caregivers of children. Using 2004 Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey data, the authors examine the relationship between coresidence with a grandmother and child schooling in Lesotho, a country with one of the highest rates of HIV infection. Results confirm the critical role grandmothers play in the event of maternal death. Maternal orphans who live with a grandmother are just as likely to be in school as children living with a mother. The protective effect of living with a grandmother is also important for children ...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - May 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Parker, E. M., Short, S. E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Incarceration and Living Arrangements: Findings From the National Health and Social Life SurveyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The authors use data from the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey to examine the association between incarceration and living arrangements, net of a range of sociodemographic and early life characteristics. Relative to living with a spouse and child(ren), there is evidence that a history of incarceration is strongly associated with several nonnuclear living arrangements, including living alone, as a sole adult with child(ren), with a partner and child(ren), with a partner but no child, and with other family but no spouse, partner, or child. These living arrangements may be indicative of lower levels of social integ...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - May 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: London, A. S., Parker, W. M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Intergenerational Patterns of Union Formation and Relationship QualityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The authors examine whether young adults who experienced their parents' divorce and new relationships have different relationship trajectories than those who spent their childhoods living with biological parents in married-couple families. The analysis is based on longitudinal reports from more than 1,500 children from Wave 1 of the 1987-1988 National Survey of Families and Households who were ages 18 to 34 at Wave 3 (in 2001-2002). The results suggest that parents' intimate relationships serve as templates for their children. Children of divorce had elevated rates of cohabitation as adults, relative to marriage. But union...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - May 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sassler, S., Cunningham, A., Lichter, D. T. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Commitment Without Marriage: Union Formation Among Long-Term Same-Sex CouplesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article analyzes in-depth interviews with gays and lesbians in long-term partnerships to examine union formation and commitment-making histories. Using a life course perspective that emphasizes historical and biographical contexts, the authors examine how couples conceptualize and form committed relationships despite being denied the right to marry. Although previous studies suggest that commitment ceremonies are a way to form same-sex unions, this study finds that because of their unique social, historical, and biographical relationship to marriage and ceremonies, long-term same-sex couples do not follow normative co...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - May 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Reczek, C., Elliott, S., Umberson, D. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Navigating the "New" Marriage Market: How Attitudes Toward Partner Characteristics Shape Union FormationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines the effect of personal attitudes on entrance into a union with a partner who has been previously married or has children. Using data from two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households, the authors find that men who hold more positive attitudes about marrying someone who already has children are more likely to enter a union with a single mother. Willingness to marry someone with children also has a positive impact on women's entry into a union with a man who has children, though only if he has not been married before. Men who express greater acceptance about marriage to someone who has been...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - May 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Goldscheider, F., Kaufman, G., Sassler, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Parental Divorce and Union Disruption Among Young Adults in SwedenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article analyzes the impact of parental divorce on the disruption of marital and nonmarital unions among young adults in Sweden, using longitudinal data from repeated mail questionnaire surveys (1999 and 2003) with 1,321 respondents (aged 26, 30, and 34 in 2003). The study takes into account several possible mechanisms governing the parent—offspring union dissolution link, including indicators on life course and socioeconomic conditions, attitudes toward divorce, union commitment, and interpersonal behavior. Findings reveal that respondents with divorced parents exhibit an increased risk for their own union disr...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - April 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gahler, M., Hong, Y., Bernhardt, E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Childlessness, Parenthood, and Depressive Symptoms Among Middle-Aged and Older AdultsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Prior research has examined whether parenthood is associated with higher levels of well-being among older adults, but definitions of parental status have varied. The authors examine links between parental status and depressive symptoms among older adults, comparing biological and social definitions of parenthood. The study finds few differences between biological and social parenthood but substantial variation in the relationship between parental status and depressive symptoms by gender and marital status. Biologically and socially childless adults had the lowest predicted levels of depression across all marital status gro...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - April 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bures, R. M., Koropeckyj-Cox, T., Loree, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Long-Term Changes in the Living Arrangements of Children in the NetherlandsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article uses two unique data sets to illustrate long-term changes in the living arrangements of children born between 1850 and 1985 in the Netherlands. Changes are described in terms of whether fathers, mothers, and stepparents lived with these children at birth and at age 15. A massive shift occurred in the living arrangements of the 1850-1879 cohort compared with the 1880-1899 cohort of children, and there is only a slight return to 19th-century conditions in the most recent birth cohort. Researchers and politicians should be careful when comparing contemporary family life with the extraordinary situation Western fa...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - April 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: van Gaalen, R., van Poppel, F. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Father--Child Contact After Separation: The Influence of Living ArrangementsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article revisits this important question using fathers' reports on a sample of 859 children from newly available survey data. Multilevel random intercept models are used to reassess the influence of child- and father-level factors on the amount of reported contact. Results show that the amount of father—child contact following separation is the product of several factors such as the father's income, conjugal/parental trajectory, and level of satisfaction with existing arrangements. (Source: Journal of Family Issues)
Source: Journal of Family Issues - April 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Swiss, L., Le Bourdais, C. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

A Single Father's Shopping Bag: Purchasing Decisions in Single-Father FamiliesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Using data from the 1980 to 2003 panels of the Consumer Expenditure Survey, this article examines purchasing decisions in father-headed single-parent families. Single-father expenditures are compared to both married-parent expenditures and single-mother expenditures on 17 broad categories of household-level goods and services. Multivariate analysis finds that single fathers' consumption choices differ from bundles within married-parent households and single-mother households. Compared to married parents, single fathers spend more on food away from home, alcohol, and tobacco products and spend less on publications, toys, an...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - April 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ziol-Guest, K. M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Fatherhood Across Two Generations: Factors Affecting Early Family RolesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article examines the determinants of men's early parental roles, distinguishing factors that affect being a father versus being childless, and factors that affect being a resident versus a nonresident father, in the context of having a partner or not. We also consider whether these patterns have changed between 1985 and 2004. The data come from the linked Child-Mother and Young Adult Samples of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), which provide information on the children of the NLSY79 from birth until they enter young adulthood, and from the original youth sample of parallel ages. The results supp...
Source: Journal of Family Issues - April 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Goldscheider, F., Hofferth, S., Spearin, C., Curtin, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals