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Family Disruption and Intergenerational Reproduction: Comparing the Influences of Married Parents, Divorced Parents, and Stepparents.
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- The Strength of Parent-Adult Child Ties in Biological Families and Stepfamilies: Evidence From Time Diaries From Older Adults.Demography · 2022Article
- Sole Family Survivors: Older Adults Lacking Family of Origin Kin.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
- New Partner, New Order? Multipartnered Fertility and Birth Order Effects on Educational Achievement.Demography · 2020Article
- The Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status in Stepfamilies: What Happens if Two Fathers Are Involved in the Transmission Process?Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
- Does Parents' Union Instability Disrupt Intergenerational Advantage? An Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa.Demography · 2020Article
- Divorce, Repartnering, and Stepfamilies: A Decade in Review.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
- Parents' Marital Quality and Children's Transition to Adulthood.Demography · 2020Article
- Is the Family Size of Parents and Children Still Related? Revisiting the Cross-Generational Relationship Over the Last Century.Demography · 2019Article
- Mothers' Time, the Parenting Package, and Links to Healthy Child Development.Journal of marriage and the family · 2018Article
- Childhood Family Structure and Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States.Demography · 2017Article
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Abstract
The transmission of individual characteristics and behaviors across generations has frequently been studied in the social sciences. For a growing number of children, however, the biological father was present in the household for only part of the time; and for many children, stepfathers were present. What are the implications of these changes for the process of intergenerational transmission? To answer this question, this article compares intergenerational transmission among married, divorced, and stepparents. Two forms of reproduction are studied: educational attainment and church attendance. For education, divorced fathers were as influential as married fathers, whereas stepfathers were less influential. For church attendance, married fathers were most influential, divorced fathers were least influential, and stepfathers were in between. Divorced mothers, in contrast, appeared to be more influential than married mothers. These findings lend negative support for the social capital hypothesis and positive support for notions of value socialization. The strong role of the divorced father for educational transmission is consistent with genetic processes and hypotheses about early advantages.
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