In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family …It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than … is correlated with lower educational attainment. In this paper we compare the relationships between family structure and …

differences in age, race/ethnicity, ages and numbers of children, and household incomes. Non-partnered mothers feel slightly more …-partnered mothers receive much less parental care--perhaps 40 percent less--than other children; and most of what they receive is from …Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend …

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive …-B administrators strictly controlled the mechanism by which children were assigned to assessment dates. The OLS results show that … children utilizing non-parental arrangements score higher on tests of mental ability, a finding that holds after accounting for …