Marriage and Family
Marriage and Family Structure Surveys and Reports
Mapping America: Repeating a Grade and Family Structure
Children who live with both biological parents or two adoptive parents are less likely to repeat a grade than those who do not.
Mapping America: Running Away and Family Structure
Adolescents who live in an intact married family are the least likely to run away from home.
Mapping America: Family Structure and School Performance of U.S. High School Students
This chart illustrates the educational performance of American high school students when viewed from the perspective of family structure.
Mapping America: Religious Attendance and Number of Sexual Intercourse Partners
Adolescent Girls – Adolescent girls who worship at least weekly have the fewest sexual intercourse partners in high school.
Mapping America: Family Structure and Theft
Adolescents who live in an intact married family are less likely to steal than those living in step-families, those whose parents are divorced, or those raised by cohabiting parents.
Mapping America: Family Structure and Sexual Intercourse Partners
Adolescent Girls – Adolescent girls living in intact married families have the fewest sexual partners.
Mapping America: Family Structure and Shoplifting
Adolescents who live with both biological parents are least likely to shoplift repeatedly.
Mapping America: Special Report
National Survey of Children’s Health Finds Intact Family and Religious Participation Are Associated with Fewer Developmental Problems in School-age Children
Institute for Research an on Poverty: The Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study
Nonmarital childbearing is important because it is increasing and because there is concern (and some evidence) that it is damaging to children and perhaps parents as well.
Karen Kornbluh: The Parent Trap
Working American parents have twenty-two fewer hours a week to spend with their kids than they did thirty years ago. Here’s how to help the new “juggler family”
