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.
TANF turns 20
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- March 2017
Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the Twenty-First Century
- Kristin Seefeldt
- Webinar
- February 15 2017
Wisconsin Poverty 101 Updated
- Helen Powling
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- September 2016
Which Families Are Poor and Why?
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- September 2016
How Economic and Social Disadvantage Affects Health and Life Opportunities
- Geoffrey Swain, Sheri Johnson, and Katie Ports
- Webinar
- June 8 2016
Financial Security: How to Measure it and Why it Matters for Families
- Caroline Ratcliffe and J. Michael Collins
- Webinar
- May 11 2016
Vetting and Letting: Cohabiting Stepfamily Formation for Low-Income Black Families
- Megan Reid
- Podcasts
- April 2016
Children’s contact with incarcerated parents
- Julie Poehlmann-Tynan
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2015–2016) 2016
Living on the Periphery: Poor Urban Men
- Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- January 2016
The Mismatch between Family Law and Nonmarital Families
- Clare Huntington
- Podcasts
- November 2015