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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Sexual Activity Among Adolescents and Young Adults

The link between growing up outside of an intact family, and the likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behaviors as an adolescent has been explored extensively.

Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives

This brief summarizes key findings from several important fatherhood initiatives that were developed and implemented during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Understanding Foster Parenting: Using Administrative Data to Explore Retention

Contents Research Questions and Methods Key Findings Foster homes are a critical resource within the child welfare system, with more than 260,000 children in non-relative foster care at the end of FY 2001.

Married and Unmarried Parenthood and Economic Well-Being: A Dynamic Analysis of a Recent Cohort

This paper adds a longitudinal perspective to the analysis of marriage and economic well-being and uses several techniques to control for the selectivity into marriage.

Charting Parenthood: A Statistical Portrait of Fathers and Mothers in America

Contents Parenting Family Formation Fertility Conclusion The great majority of Americans will become parents at some point in their lives.

Prisoners and Families: Parenting Issues During Incarceration

This paper provides an overview of family matters during incarceration as one means of informing public debate and actions in this emerging area of social policy and practice. The problems that families face when a parent is incarcerated and the strategies they use to manage those problems are described.

The Antisocial Behavior of the Adolescent Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Developmental Perspective

By virtue of their developmental stage, it is the adolescents of incarcerated parents who have the potential to have the greatest impact on society at large, and in this paper, we focus on the most powerful problem that they can exhibit, antisocial behavior.

Moving into Adulthood: Were the Impacts of Mandatory Programs for Welfare-Dependent Teenaged Parents Sustained After the Programs Ended?

Submitted by: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc P.O. Box 2393 Princeton, NJ 08543-2393 (609) 799-3535 Project Director: Ellen Eliason Kisker

Costs of Mandatory Education and Training Programs for Teenage Parents on Welfare: Lessons from the Teenage Parent Demonstration

Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesAssistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) Rm. 404E, HHH Bldg. 200 Independence Ave., SW