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Title: Accounting for Race Differences in How Family Structure Shapes the Transition to Adulthood

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Publication Year: 2022

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Abstract: In the United States, young adults raised in stably married two-parent families complete college, enter full-time employment and dealy family formation more often than peers raised in other fmaily forms (Fomby and Bosick 2013; Hofferth and Goldscheider 2010). These events and statuses mark the transition into adulthood and are associated with positive long-term economic, physical, and emotional well-being. Yes, two in five contemporary U.S. children grow up in other living arrangments, a disparity that largely cleaves along racial, ethnic, and social class lines (Payne 2019). Given the perceived long-term gains to growing up with stably married parents and children's divergent experiences of family composition, a substantial social science literature has emerged over the last 50 years to explore what sets paretns' marriage apart from other forms of family organization as a context for child rearing and why or whether family sturcture matters for the transition to adulthood.

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Authors: Fomby, Paula

Editors: Kimmel, Jean

Pages: 193-227

Volume Title: Intergenerational Mobility: How Gender, Race, and Family Structure Affect Adult Outcomes

Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage

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