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Whose money matters?
- Alexandra Killewald
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- 2014
Family structure refers to the composition of children and parental figures in a family. Family complexity is used to describe families that are not composed only of two biological parents and their joint children and in which neither parent has experienced multiple-partner fertility.