Can We Promote Child Well-Being by Promoting Marriage?

Autor/in	Acs, Gregory
Titel	Can We Promote Child Well-Being by Promoting Marriage?
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 69 (2007) 5, S.1326-1344 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00450.x
Schlagwörter	Marital Instability; Well Being; Cognitive Tests; Marriage; Effect Size; Child Health; Longitudinal Studies; Parent Influence; Family Environment; Cognitive Ability; Marital Satisfaction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familienkonflikt; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Kognitiver Fähigkeitstest; Ehe; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Familienmilieu; Denkfähigkeit
Abstract	This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort Mother-Child files to explore the idea that child well-being can be improved by encouraging and enhancing parental marriage. I consider how children's living arrangements, the stability of parental marriages, and changes in living arrangements are related to children's behavior and cognitive test scores. Although there is some evidence that children living with their married parents, even parents in unstable marriages, have better outcomes than children living in certain nonmarital arrangements, the findings vary across domains and specifications, and the effect sizes are generally small. Thus, any benefits of policies aimed improving child well-being by encouraging and enhancing parental marriage are likely to be modest at best. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10