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News and Notes
July 2017

Children's Family Structure Remains Stable Since 2016
 
Since 2010, children's family structure remains virtually unchanged. A majority of children resided with two biological parents in 2016, fewer than 10% lived with a stepparent, and nearly one-quarter lived with a single mother or father. In the new trio of American Children's Family Structure profiles, we document the characteristics of children's parents and family life including parental educational attainment, racial and ethnic composition, measures of poverty, and children's health insurance coverage. We focus on two biological parent families, stepparent families, and single-parent families in 2016.
Family Structure of Minor Children, 2010 & 2016


Source: Current Population Survey, 2010 & 2016

New at the NCFMR

Original reports summarizing and analyzing nationally representative data with the goal of providing the latest analysis of U.S. families.   

 

  • Two Biological Parent Families, 2010-2016
  • Stepparent Families, 2010-2016
  • Single Parent Families, 2010-2016

Our American Children's Family Structure trio is part of the Family Structure Resources by Topic webpage.

 
A full list of national news items and media links are available at NCFMR in the News. 

2009 NCMR/AAHMI Grant Awardee Published in "Personal Relationships"  

Tera R. Hurt
In 2009, the National Center for Marriage Research (NCMR) and the African American Healthy Marriage Initiative (AAHMI) (ACF, US Department of HHS) funded four proposals to support innovative research and new work on African American families that can be translated to a broad audience, including policymakers, practitioners, and educators.

Research by grant awardee Tera R. Hurt, Iowa State University, that culminated from the 2009 AAHMI grant was recently published in Personal Relationships. Hurt and her colleagues Jeffrey K. Shears, NC at Greensboro, Margaret C. O'Connor, Iowa State University, and Sharon B. Hodge, Black Family Preservation Group Inc., explore Black son's observations of fathers' teachings about husbandhood in their article "Married Black men's observation of fathers' teachings about husbandhood."    

Four BGSU Colleagues Published in "JFI"

Research by Professors and NCFMR Co-directors Susan L. Brown and Wendy D. Manning and Social Science Data Analyst Krista K. Payne titled "Relationship Quality Among Cohabiting Versus Married Couples" was recently published in the Journal of Family Issues (JFI). Using data from the nationally representative 2010 Married and Cohabiting Couples Survey of different-sex cohabiting and married couples, the team compares the relationship quality of today's cohabitors and marrieds.

"Shifts in Higher-Order Unions and Stepfamilies Among Currently Cohabiting and Married Women of Childbearing Age," by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, BGSU associate professor and CFDR associate director, also was published in JFI. Guzzo uses 1988 and 2011-2013 cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to examine the proportion of current cohabitations and marriages that are higher-order unions (e.g., remarriages, first marriages among those with prior cohabitations, and second or higher cohabitations) and stepfamilies among women aged 15 to 44 years. 


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August

Call for Authors -- NCFR Report
Families with Differences
Indicate Interest by: August 1
Manuscripts Due: August 15
Link to NCFR

Call for Applications -- William T. Grant Foundation, Research Grant
Date Due: August 2
Link to William T. Grant Foundation

112th American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting
Culture, Inequalities, and Social Inclusion Across the Globe
Dates: August 12 - 15
Link to ASA

Call for Submissions -- Journal of Research on Adolescence
Promises, Perils, and Practicalities of Ambulatory Assessment for Capturing
Adolescent Development
Date Due: August 15
Manuscript Submissions Due: December 15
Link to Wiley Online Library

Call for Abstracts -- IOSSBR Fall International Conference Atlantic City
Date Due: August 15
Conference Dates: September 21 - 22
Link to IOSSBR

Call for Applications -- The Russell Sage Foundation
Regular Programs: Social Inequality/Future of Work/Race, Ethnicity & Immigration/
Behavioral Economics
Letters of Intent Due: August 15 @ 2:00 p.m. ET
Link to Russell Sage Foundation

Call for Applications -- American Educational Research Association (AERA) & the National Science Foundation (NSF)
AERA Grants Program
Date Due: August 31
Link to AERA


September

Call for Applications -- NCFR Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) Special Recognition Award
Date Due: September 8
Link to NCFR

Call for Proposals -- The Spencer Foundation Midcareer Grant Program
Date Due: September 14
Link to Spencer

Call for Abstracts -- IOSSBR Fall International Conference Las Vegas
Date Due: September 15
Conference Dates: October 5 - 6
Link to IOSSBR

2018 Call for Papers -- Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting
Date Due: September 29
Conference Dates: April 26 - 28, 2018
Link to PAA


October

Call for Papers -- Eastern Sociological Society (ESS)
As Time Goes By: Social and Institutional Change
Date Due: October 15
Annual Meeting Dates: February 22 - 25, 2018
Link to ESS

Call for Papers -- Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) 
Philadelphia Sustainable Futures, SfAA 2018 
Date Due: October 15
Conference Dates: April 3 - 7, 2018 
 
25th Annual National Symposium on Family Issues -- Population Research Institute (PRI)
Families and Technology
Dates: October 23 - 24
Link to PRI

BGSU/OSU Graduate Student Conference on Population
Date: October 27
Link to CFDR 
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NCFMR Team

















Co-directors
Dr. Susan L. Brown
Dr. Wendy D. Manning

Social Science Data Analysts
Dr. Krista K. Payne
Hsueh-Sheng Wu

Technical Writer
Lesley Wadsworth

Graduate Research Assistants
Maurice Anyawie
Kasey Eickmeyer
Paul Hemez
Diego Plaza
Huijing Wu

BGSU Research Affiliates

 
National Center of Family and Marriage Research
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