As the number of children born into lesbian and gay families increases, custody and access disputes between same …

An important first step in research on gay or lesbian parenting includes accurately documenting the number of children … who are being raised by gay or lesbian parents. US census data can provide accurate estimates of the number of children … being raised by same-sex couples, but children being raised by gay or lesbian single parents cannot be identified in this …

Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6 …, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with … maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …

Participation in non-parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool-age children in the U.S. However …

. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior … is malleable. In a control condition, about 50% of children prefer two rewards the next day over one reward immediately … successfully in promoting delay of gratification. We also find that patience increases with age and that more patient children have …