Family structure pathways and academic disadvantage among adolescents in stepfamilies

Sociological Inquiry

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 383-424

  Tillman, Kathryn Harker ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547471049     PISSN: 00380245     EISSN: 1475682X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.2007.00198.x     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Acock, Alan. C. David H. Demo. 1999. "Dimensions of Family Conflict and Their Influence on Child and Adolescent Adjustment." Sociological Inquiry 69 : 641 58.
2. Amato, Paul R. 1993. "Children's Adjustment to Divorce: Theories, Hypotheses, and Empirical Support." Journal of Marriage and the Family 55 : 23 8.
3. Amato, Paul R. 2000. "The Consequences of Divorce for Adults and Children." Journal of Marriage and the Family 62 : 1269 87.
4. Amato, Paul R., Laura S. Loomis Alan Booth. 1995. "Parental Divorce, Marital Conflict, and Offspring Well-Being during Early Adulthood." Social Forces 73 : 895 915.
5. Aquilino, William S. 2005. "Impact of Family Structure on Parental Attitudes toward the Economic Support of Adult Children over the Transition to Adulthood." Journal of Family Issues 26 : 143 67.
6. Astone, Nan Marie Sara S. McLanahan. 1991. "Family Structure, Parental Practices, and High School Completion." American Sociological Review 56 : 309 20.
7. Astone, Nan Marie Sara S. McLanahan. 1994. "Family Structure, Residential Mobility, and School Dropout: A Research Note." Demography 31 : 575 84.
8. Biblarz, Timothy J. G. Gottainer. 2000. "Family Structure and Children's Success: A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-Mother Families." Journal of Marriage and the Family 62 : 533 48.
9. Booth, Alan Judy Dunn, eds. 1994. Stepfamilies: Who Benefits? Who Does Not? Hillsdale, NJ : Erlbaum.
10. Brown, Susan L. 2002. "Child Well-Being in Cohabiting Families." Pp. 173 88 in Just Living Together: Implications of Cohabitation for Children, Families, and Social Policy, edited by A. B. Crouter A. C. Crouter. Mahwah, NJ : Erlbaum.
11. Brown, Susan L. 2004. "Family Structure and Child Well-Being: The Significance of Parental Cohabitation." Journal of Marriage and Family 66 : 351 67.
12. Buchanan, Christy M., Eleanor E. Maccoby Sanford M. Dornbusch. 1996. Adolescents after Divorce. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press.
13. Capaldi, Deborah M. Gerald R. Patterson. 1991. "Relation of Parental Transitions to Boys' Adjustment Problems: I. A Linear Hypotheses. II. Mothers at Risk for Transitions and Unskilled Parenting." Developmental Psychology 27 : 489 504.
14. Chantala, Kim Joyce Tabor. 1999. "Strategies to Perform a Design-Based Analysis Using the Add Health Data." Retrieved August 1, 2005. < http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/files/weight1.pdf >.
15. Cherlin, Andrew J. 1978. "Remarriage as an Incomplete Institution." American Journal of Sociology 84 : 634 50.
16. Cherlin, Andrew J. 1992. Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University.
17. Cherlin, Andrew J. Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. 1994. "Stepfamilies in the United States: A Reconsideration." Annual Review of Sociology 20 : 359 81.
18. Cherlin, Andrew J., Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Kathleen E. Kiernan, Philip K. Robins, Donna Ruane Morrison Julien O. Teitler. 1991. "Longitudinal Studies of Effects of Divorce on Children in Great Britain and the United States." Science 252 : 1386 9.
19. Clingempeel, W. Glenn Sion Segal. 1986. "Stepparent-Stepchild Relationships and the Psychological Adjustment of Children in Stepmother and Stepfather Families." Child Development 57 : 474 84.
20. Coleman, Marilyn, Lawrence Ganong Mark A. Fine. 2000. "Reinvestigating Remarriage: Another Decade of Progress." Journal of Marriage and the Family 62 : 1288 1307.
21. Cooksey, Elizabeth. 1997. "Consequences of Young Mothers' Marital Histories for Children's Cognitive Development." Journal of Marriage and the Family 59 : 245 61.
22. Day, Randal D. 1992. "The Transition to First Intercourse among Racially and Culturally Diverse Youth." Journal of Marriage and the Family 54 : 749 62.
23. Downey, Douglas B. 1995. "When Bigger Is Not Better: Family Size, Parental Resources, and Children's Educational Performance." American Sociological Review 60 : 746 61.
24. Drew, L. A. Peter K. Smith. 1999. "The Impact of Parental Separation/Divorce on Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 48 : 191 216.
25. Elder, Glen H., Jr. 1985. Life Course Dynamics. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press.
26. Elder, Glen H., Jr. 1998. "The Life Course as Developmental Theory." Child Development 69 : 1 12.
27. Entwisle, Doris R., Karl L. Alexander Linda Steffel Olson. 1997. Children, Schools and Inequality. Boulder, CO : Westview Press.
28. Fine, Mark A. Lawrence Kurdek. A. 1992. "The Adjustment of Adolescents in Stepfather and Stepmother Families." Journal of Marriage and the Family 54 : 725 36.
29. Fine, Mark A. A. Schwebel. 1992. "Stepparent Stress." Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 17 : 1 15.
30. Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr. Andrew J. Cherlin. 1991. Divided Families: What Happens to Children When Parents Part. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press.
31. Ganong, Lawrence H. Marilyn Coleman. 1994. Remarried Family Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage.
32. Ginther, Donna K. Robert A. Pollak. 2004. "Family Structure and Children's Educational Outcomes: Blended Families, Stylized Facts, and Descriptive Regressions." Demography 41 : 671 96.
33. Harker, Kathryn. 2000. "Potential Sample Bias Associated with the Parent Data File in Add Health." Working Paper. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina.
34. Harris, Kathleen M. 1997. Teen Mothers and the Revolving Welfare Door. Philadelphia, PA : Temple University.
35. Harris, Kathleen M., Francesca Florey, Joyce W. Tabor, Peter S. Bearman, Jo Jones J. Richard Udry. 2003. "The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health: Study Design." Retrieved August 1, 2005. < http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/design.html >.
36. Haveman, Robert Barbara Wolfe. 1994. Succeeding Generations: On the Effects of Investments in Children. New York : Russell Sage Foundation.
37. Hetherington, E. Mavis Margaret Stanley-Hagan. 2000. "Diversity among Stepfamilies." Pp. 173 96 in Handbook of Family Diversity, edited by D. H. Demo, K. R. Allen M. A. Fine. New York : Oxford University.
38. Hobart, Charles. 1991. "Conflict in Remarriages." Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 15 : 69 86.
39. Holden, Karen C. Pamela J. Smock. 1991. "The Economic Costs of Marital Dissolution: Why Do Women Bear a Disproportionate Cost?" Annual Review of Sociology 17 : 51 78.
40. Hoffmann, John. P. Robert A. Johnson. 1998. "A National Portrait of Family Structure and Adolescent Drug Use." Journal of Marriage and the Family 60 : 633 45.
41. Huurre, Taina, Hillevi Aro, Ossi Rahkonen Erkki Komulainen. 2006. "Health, Lifestyle, Family and School Factors in Adolescence: Predicting Adult Educational Level." Educational Research 48 : 41 53.
42. Johnson, Colleen L. 1992. "Divorced and Reconstituted Families: Effects on the Older Generation." Generations 16 : 17 30.
43. King, Valerie Holly E. Heard. 1999. "Nonresident Father Visitation, Parental Conflict, and Mother's Satisfaction: What's Best for Child Well-Being?" Journal of Marriage and the Family 61 : 385 96.
44. Kuncel, Nathan R., Marcus Credé Lisa L. Thomas. 2005. "The Validity of Self-Reported Grade Point Averages, Class Ranks, and Test Scores: A Meta-Analysis and Review of the Literature." Review of Educational Research 75 : 63 82.
45. Kurdek, Lawrence A. Mark A. Fine. 1993. "The Relation between Family Structure and Young Adolescents' Appraisals of Family Climate and Parenting Behavior." Journal of Family Issues 14 : 279 90.
46. Manning, Wendy D. Kathleen A. Lamb. 2003. "Adolescent Well-Being in Cohabiting, Married, and Single-Parent Families." Journal of Marriage and Family 65 : 876 93.
47. Martinson, Brian C. Lawrence L. Wu. 1992. "Parent Histories: Patterns of Change in Early Life." Journal of Family Issues 13 : 351 77.
48. McLanahan, Sara. S. Gary Sandefur. 1994. Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press.
49. Menaghan, Elizabeth G., Lori Kowaleski-Jones Frank L. Mott. 1997. "The Intergenerational Costs of Parental Social Stressors: Academic and Social Difficulties in Early Adolescence for Children of Young Mothers." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38 : 72 86.
50. Parish, Thomas S. B. M. Kappes. 1980. "Impact of Father Loss on the Family." Social Behavior and Personality 8 : 107 12.
51. Pearlin, Leonard I., Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Morton A. Lieberman Joseph T. Mullan. 1981. "The Stress Process." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 22 : 337 56.
52. Plunkett, Scott W. Carolyn S. Henry. 1999. "Adolescent Perceptions of Interparental Conflict, Stressors, and Coping as Predictors of Adolescent Family Life Satisfaction." Sociological Inquiry 69 : 599 620.
53. Plunkett, Scott W., M. G. Sanchez, Carolyn S. Henry Linda C. Robinson. 1997. "The Double ABCX Model and Children's Post-Divorce Adaptation." Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 27 : 17 33.
54. Pong, Suet-ling. 1997. "Family Structure, School Context, and Eighth Grade Math and Reading Achievement." Journal of Marriage and the Family 59 : 734 46.
55. Pong, Suet-ling Dong-Beom Ju. 2000. "The Effects of Change in Family Structure and Income on Dropping Out of Middle and High School." Journal of Family Issues 21 : 147 69.
56. Portes, Alejandro Rubén Rumbaut. 1996. Immigrant America: A Portrait. Berkeley, CA : University of California.
57. Raley, R. Kelly Elizabeth Wildsmith. 2004. "Cohabitation and Children's Family Instability." Journal of Marriage and Family 66 : 210 19.
58. Rindfuss, Ronald R., Elizabeth C. Cooksey Rebecca L. Sutterlin. 1999. "Young Adult Occupational Achievement: Early Expectations versus Behavioral Reality." Work and Occupations 26 : 220 63.
59. Rozondal, F. G. 1983. "Halos Versus Stigmas: Long Term Effects of Parent's Death or Divorce on College Students' Concepts of the Family." Adolescence 18 : 947 55.
60. Sandefur, Gary D. Thomas Wells. 1999. "Does Family Structure Really Influence Educational Attainment?" Social Science Research 28 : 331 57.
61. Seltzer, Judith. 1994. "Consequences of Marital Dissolution for Children." Annual Review of Sociology 20 : 235 66.
62. Seltzer, Judith Suzanne M. Bianchi. 1988. "Children's Contact with Absent Parents." Journal of Marriage and the Family 50 : 663 77.
63. Short, Jerome L. 2002. "The Effects of Parental Divorce during Childhood on College Students." Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 38 : 143 55.
64. Silverman, Phyllis R., Steven Nickman J. William Worden. 1992. "Detachment Revisited: The Child's Reconstructions of a Dead Parent." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 62 : 494 503.
65. Stewart, Susan D. 2001. "Contemporary American Stepparenthood: Integrating Cohabiting and Nonresident Stepparents." Population Research and Policy Review 20 : 345 64.
66. Thoits, Peggy A. 1995. "Stress, Coping, and Social Support Processes: Where Are We? What Next?" Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36 : 53 79.
67. Thomson, Elizabeth. 1994. "'Settings' and 'Development' from a Demographic Point of View." Pp. 89 96 in Stepfamilies: Who Benefits, Who Does Not?, edited by A. Booth J. Dunn. Hillsdale, NJ : Erlbaum.
68. Thomson, Elizabeth, Thomas L. Hanson Sara S. McLanahan. 1994. "Family Structure and Child Well-Being: Economic Resources vs. Parental Behaviors." Social Forces 73 : 221 42.
69. Tillman, Kathryn Harker, Guang Guo Kathleen Mullan Harris. 2006. "Grade Retention among Immigrant Children." Social Science Research 35 : 129 56.
70. Wallerstein, Judith S., Shauna B. Corbin Julia M. Lewis. 1988. "Children of Divorce: A 10-Year Study." Pp. 197 212 in Impact of Divorce, Single Parenting, and Stepparenting on Children, edited by E. M. Hetherington J. D. Arasteh. Hillsdale, NJ : Erlbaum.
71. Wiesner, Margit, Fred W. Vondracek, Deborah M. Capaldi Erik Porfeli. 2003. "Childhood and Adolescent Predictors of Early Adult Career Pathways." Journal of Vocational Behavior 63 : 305 28.
72. Whitsett, Doni Helen Land. 1992. "The Development of a Role Strain Index for Stepparents." Families in Society 73 : 14 22.
73. Wojtkiewicz, Roger A. 1993a. "Duration in Parental Structures and High School Graduation." Sociological Perspectives 36 : 393 414.
74. Wojtkiewicz, Roger A. 1993b. "Simplicity and Complexity in the Effects of Parental Structure on High School Graduation." Demography 30 : 701 17.
75. Wu, Lawrence L. 1996. "Effects of Family Instability, Income, and Income Instability on the Risk of a Premarital Birth." American Sociological Review 61 : 386 406.
76. Wu, Lawrence L. Brian C. Martinson. 1993. "Family Structure and the Risk of Premarital Birth." American Sociological Review 59 : 210 32.
77. Zill, Nicholas. 1996. "Family Change and Student Achievement: What We Have Learned, What It Means For Schools." Pp. 137 74 in Family-School Links: How Do They Affect Educational Outcomes?, edited by A. Booth J. Dunn. Mahwah, NJ : Erlbaum.
78. Zimmerman, Marc A., Cleopatra H. Caldwell Debra H. Bernat. 2002. "Discrepancy between Self-Report and School-Record Grade Point Average: Correlates with Psychosocial Outcomes among African American Adolescents." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 32 : 86 109.
79. Zvoch, Keith. 1999. "Family Type and Investment in Education: A Comparison of Genetic and Stepparent Families." Evolution and Human Behavior 20 : 453 64.