Family & Partnering

Family life and economic status are closely intertwined. Fertility, family formation, family structure, parental relationship dissolution, multiple-partner fertility, and family complexity patterns vary by socioeconomic status, as do parenting behaviors and the quality of children’s home environments. The family contexts in which children are born and raised are, in turn, associated with their own economic and social well-being throughout their lives.

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Explaining the Patterns of Child Support among Unmarried Low-Income Noncustodial Fathers in Chicago, Milwaukee and New York

  • Katherine A. Magnuson
  • Report
  • 2006
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Child Support Guidelines and Complicated Families: An Analysis of Cross-State Variation in Legal Treatment of Multiple-Partner Fertility

  • Tonya Brito
  • Report
  • 2005
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Multiple-Partner Fertility: Incidence and Implications for Child Support Policy

  • Daniel R. Meyer, Maria Cancian, and Steven T. Cook
  • Discussion Paper
  • 2004
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Children’s Living Arrangements in Divorced Wisconsin Families with Shared Placement

  • M. L. Krecker, P. Brown, M. S. Melli, and L. Wimer
  • Report
  • 2003
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Wisconsin’s Family Care Long-Term Care Pilot Program: Care Managers’ Perspectives on Progress and Challenges

  • Stephanie A. Robert
  • Report
  • 2003
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Early Evidence from Wisconsin’s Family Care Long-Term Care Pilot Program: Continuity and Change in the Provision of Formal Services

  • Stephanie A. Robert
  • Report
  • 2001
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Child Care Quality: Does It Matter and Does It Need to Be Improved?

  • Deborah Lowe Vandell; and Barbara Wolfe
  • Report
  • 2000