Previous research has found that pregnancy intentions are predictive of some early parental behaviors and infant health outcomes. However, most studies have relied on mothers’ reports of pregnancy intentions and have examined only maternal behaviors which may affect children’s health. This...

Using a unique set of longitudinal qualitative interviews with parents who participated in the Fragile Families Study in Oakland, California, this paper examines the situations in which disadvantaged fathers shared caretaking responsibilities with mothers in the first four years of their...

This paper examines the consequences of incarceration for non-resident White, Latino, and African American fathers’ contact with children and their formal and informal child support agreements three years after the child’s birth. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing...

This paper examines the consequences of incarceration for non-resident White, Latino, and African American fathers’ contact with children and their formal and informal child support agreements three years after the child’s birth. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing...

Previous research has found that pregnancy intentions are predictive of some early parental behaviors and infant health outcomes. However, most studies have relied on mothers’ reports of pregnancy intentions and have examined only maternal behaviors which may affect children’s health. This...

Drawing on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we examine how unmarried parents’ risk of divorce influences their decision to delay marriage. We first use the sample of initially married mothers in the study to estimate their probability of marital dissolution as a...

Drawing on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we examine how unmarried parents’ risk of divorce influences their decision to delay marriage. We first use the sample of initially married mothers in the study to estimate their probability of marital dissolution as a...

Prior research linking family structure with parenting often confounds the effects of family structure with the effects of family instability. In this analysis, I use data from the Fragile Families Study (N= 3107) to answer two main questions: (a) Are there differences in maternal stress and...

We use the package deal framework to study the trajectory of father involvement over time as a function of union status, while also examining reporting differences in father involvement by parent gender. Data on 4,224 mother-father pairs are from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study....