Despite family law’s broader recognition of nonmarital sexualities and nonmarital parental status in the past forty … years, marriage has continued to shape the legal and social experiences of parents in a critical aspect of their lives … — sexuality. Encompassing sexual behavior and sexual orientation, the sexuality of parents has curiously drawn little attention in …

examine the time that single, cohabiting, and married parents devote to caring for their children. Time spent in market work … evidence that these time allocation decisions differ for cohabiting and married parents, but there is evidence that single …

By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a …