Family structure and multiple domains of child well-being in the United States: a cross-sectional study

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorKrueger, Patrick M
dc.contributor.authorJutte, Douglas P
dc.contributor.authorFranzini, Luisa
dc.contributor.authorElo, Irma
dc.contributor.authorHayward, Mark D
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-26T16:00:16Z
dc.date.available2021-08-26T16:00:16Z
dc.date.issued2015-02-21
dc.description.abstractWe examine the association between family structure and children’s health care utilization, barriers to health care access, health, and schooling and cognitive outcomes and assess whether socioeconomic status (SES) accounts for those family structure differences. We advance prior research by focusing on understudied but increasingly common family structures including single father families and five different family structures that include grandparents. Our data on United States children aged birth through 17 (unweighted N = 198,864) come from the 1997–2013 waves of the National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative, publicly available, household-based sample. We examine 17 outcomes across nine family structures, including married couple, cohabiting couple, single mother, and single father families, with and without grandparents, and skipped-generation families that include children and grandparents but not parents. The SES measures include family income, home ownership, and parents’ or grandparents’ (depending on who is in the household) employment and education. Compared to children living with married couples, children in single mother, extended single mother, and cohabiting couple families average poorer outcomes, but children in single father families sometimes average better health outcomes. The presence of grandparents in single parent, cohabiting, or married couple families does not buffer children from adverse outcomes. SES only partially explains family structure disparities in children’s well-being. All non-married couple family structures are associated with some adverse outcomes among children, but the degree of disadvantage varies across family structures. Efforts to understand and improve child well-being might be most effective if they recognize the increasing diversity in children’s living arrangements.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-015-0038-0
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/ike1-vyea
dc.identifier.citationKrueger, P.M., Jutte, D.P., Franzini, L. et al. Family structure and multiple domains of child well-being in the United States: a cross-sectional study. Popul Health Metrics 13, 6 (2015).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/27651
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtHealth Services Administration
dc.relation.isAvailableAtSchool of Public Health
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM)
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, MD)
dc.subjectChildrenen_US
dc.subjectFamilyen_US
dc.subjectExtended familyen_US
dc.subjectAccess to health careen_US
dc.subjectUtilization of health careen_US
dc.subjectHealthen_US
dc.subjectSchoolen_US
dc.subjectSingle parenten_US
dc.subjectGrandparenten_US
dc.titleFamily structure and multiple domains of child well-being in the United States: a cross-sectional studyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
s12963-015-0038-0.pdf
Size:
401.23 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.57 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Health Policy & Management Research Works