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Direct linkAmato, Paul R.; Meyers, Catherine E.; Emery, Robert E. – Family Relations, 2009
To study changes in nonresident father contact since the 1970s, we pooled data from 4 national surveys: the National Survey of Children (1976), the National Survey of Families and Households (1987 - 1988), the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1996), and the National Survey of America's Families (2002). On the basis of mothers' reports,…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Children, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship
Amato, Paul R.; Kane, Jennifer B. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
The authors used data from the Add Health study to estimate the effects of parents' marital status and relationship distress on daughters' early family formation transitions. Outcomes included traditional transitions (marriage and marital births) and nontraditional transitions (cohabitation and nonmarital births). Relationship distress among…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Daughters, One Parent Family, Interpersonal Relationship
Amato, Paul R.; Landale, Nancy S.; Havasevich-Brooks, Tara C.; Booth, Alan; Eggebeen, David J.; Schoen, Robert; McHale, Susan M. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2008
We used latent class analysis to create family formation pathways for women between the ages of 18 and 23. Input variables included cohabitation, marriage, parenthood, full-time employment, and attending school. Data (n = 2,290) came from Waves I and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The analysis revealed…
Descriptors: Mothers, Females, Adolescents, Family Structure
Schoen, Robert; Rogers, Stacy J.; Amato, Paul R. – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
The authors investigate the direction of the relationship between marital happiness and wives' full-time employment using the 1987 to 1988 and 1992 to 1994 waves of the National Survey of Families and Households. First, the authors predict change in wives' employment between the two waves using marital happiness and other Time 1 characteristics.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Spouses, Employment Level, Marital Satisfaction
Download full textAmato, Paul R.; Maynard, Rebecca A. – Future of Children, 2007
Since the 1970s, the share of U.S. children growing up in single-parent families has doubled, a trend that has disproportionately affected disadvantaged families. Paul Amato and Rebecca Maynard argue that reversing that trend would reduce poverty in the short term and, perhaps more important, improve children's growth and development over the long…
Descriptors: Divorce, Sex Education, Poverty, Marital Satisfaction
Peer reviewedAmato, Paul R.; Partridge, Sonia – Family Relations, 1987
Compared 21 widowed mothers, 21 divorced mothers, and 21 married mothers on material, personal, family, and social well-being. Found that, compared with married mothers, divorced mothers revealed consistently lower levels of economic well-being, widowed mothers tended to have lower levels of personal well-being. Discusses implications for…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Divorce, Foreign Countries, Marital Status
