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This Week on Family Studies


In a new IFS research brief, W. Bradford Wilcox, Jacob Van Leeuwen, and Joseph Price explored the relationship between neighborhood-level family structure and poor children's odds of realizing the American dream. Also, IFS senior fellow Scott Stanley and Galena Rhoades discussed new research linking premarital cohabitation to greater odds of divorce. In a separate essay, Rhoades offered young people 4 reasons why living together may make it harder to determine if your romantic partner is "the one," and Naomi Schaefer Riley reviewed KJ Dell'Antonia's new book, How to Be a Happier Parent

It Takes Two Parents

W. Bradford Wilcox, Jacob Van Leeuwen, and Joseph Price

Mobility for children raised in lower-income families is higher for kids raised in neighborhoods with more two-parent families, and lower in neighborhoods with more single-parent families.

Cohabitation and Divorce

by Scott Stanley & Galena Rhoades
 
A new study finds that premarital cohabitation is associated with lower odds of divorce in the first year of marriage, but increases the odds of divorce in all other years tested, and this finding held across decades. 

Happy Parents, Happy Kids

by Naomi Schaefer Riley

Without clear rules laid out for daily questions like how much screen time or how many snacks, we are subject to a constant barrage of begging and whining. And it is making us much less happy as parents.

4 Reasons to Decide, Not Slide

by Galena Rhoades

Living with a romantic partner can affect your ability to respond to large relationship issues the way you would if you were discerning the relationship from different living quarters.

IFS Around the Web

IFS research fellow Lyman Stone was quoted recently in Slate, and his IFS research brief on higher rent and fertility was referenced by Reihan Salam in National Review. IFS research was also cited in a Daily Caller article by Grace Carr that was reprinted by The Stream, The Daily Signal, and others.

His Standards or Hers?

by Susan Pinker

Do we still expect the majority of women to adopt male-determined goals as their own? Or do most women in industrialized nations have something else in mind when they make life decisions?
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