This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where thefather is non-resident have an award or … agreement for child support in place. Datafrom the Families and Children Study are used to explore not only whether mothershave … disadvantaged. Moreover, awards were lesscommonplace where there were fewer children, where mothers claimed IncomeSupport, were from …

Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neithercohabiting nor married. Little is known about … acknowledged theirchild at the time of the birth. Secondly, we identify the characteristics thatdifferentiate parents who continue … enquire whether they differ in the extent of their engagement in family lifecompared with fathers who have been living with …

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain.Using appropriate statistical …, there are strong linksbetween female employment, having children and union formation. Byundertaking a detailed micro …

Parental divorce has been an increasing experience amongst thegenerations of children born since the 1970s in European … countries. Thisstudy analyses data on the partnership and parenthood behaviour ofthose children who experienced parental … are more likely to form partnerships and tobecome parents at a young age; they are more likely to opt forcohabitation over …

The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe butits application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What couldbe meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper.Among other things, I … exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of theconcept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …

In this paper we explore the association between family income and children’s cognitive ability (IQ and school … obesity). We develop a decomposition technique that allows us to compare the relative importance of the adverse family … characteristics and home environments of low income children in accounting for different outcomes. Using rich cohort data from the UK …

Parental involvement in their children’s lives can have a lasting impact on wellbeing.More involved parents convey to … their children that they are interested intheir development, and this in turn signals to the child that their future is … Development Study; a longitudinal study of children born inBritain in 1958. Results on a sample of children raised in two parent …

games, focus groups with parents and children, a survey with parents, and behavioural experiments on advergames and in … parents play an important role in mediating their children’s online behaviour, parents are often not fully aware of the risks … children are exposed to increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques online which are often outside the purview of existing …

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia … theelderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that public policy inthe region assumes the family as primarily …

from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe characteristics of the divorced population. In the second part … adulthood. A number of insights emergedfrom our longitudinal analyses as well as from the cross-sectional analysisof the Family …