associated with changes in perceived social support, material hardship, maternal depression, and parenting stress among mothers … of her child’s life, we pay close attention to the type and timing of these transitions. We find that mothers who … depression. Mothers who exit cohabiting or marital relationships encounter decreases in perceived social support and increases in …

findings by considering the countervailing consequences of paternal incarceration for both fathers’ and mothers’ parenting …’ relationships with their children’s mothers. Effects on mothers’ parenting, however, are more inconsistent, as recent paternal …

of other family characteristics on children. Parental relationship quality and mothers’ religiosity are associated with …

characteristics of the mothers and children, as well as adjusting for a lagged indicator of children's health. Results suggest that … children born to unmarried mothers than children born to married mothers. …

of other family characteristics on children. Parental relationship quality and mothers’ religiosity are associated with …

, while also examining reporting differences in father involvement by parent gender. Data on 4,224 mother-father pairs are … per week and declines at a rate of .17 days per year. Mothers, on average, report father involvement to be .57 days less … involvement and the lowest levels of discrepancy between mothers’ and fathers’ reports. Cohabiting fathers exhibit higher average …

Employment rates for married and unmarried mothers in the United States crossed over in the early 1990s, leading to … how the employment of mothers varies by family structure in the five years after giving birth. Before taking demographic … or human capital characteristics into account, married, cohabiting and lone mothers have similar levels of employment …