Introducing the issue

Future of Children

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 3-16

  McLanahan, Sara ^a   Garfinkel, Irwin ^b   Mincy, Ronald B ^b   Donahue, Elisabeth ^c  

^a Center for Research on Child Wellbeing

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77957338679     PISSN: 10548289     EISSN: 15501558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/foc.2010.0005     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. National Vital Statistics Report 57, no. 7 (January 7, 2009), table 18.
2. Specifically, the term was developed by Ronald B. Mincy, one of the editors of this volume, as part of the Ford Foundation's Strengthening Fragile Families Initiative.
3. The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study: National Report, Revised March 2003, page 3; found at www.fragilefamilies.princeton.edu/documents/nationalreport.pdf.
4. The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (Office of Policy Planning and Research, U.S. Department of Labor, March 1965).
5. William J. Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged (Harvard University Press, 1988).
6. National Vital Statistics Report (see note 1). 57, no. 7 (January 7, 2009), table 18
7. For information about the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, go to www.fragilefamilies.princeton.edu/index.asp.
8. The final sample contained nearly 5,000 births, including approximately 3,600 births to unmarried parents and approximately 1,200 births to married parents. When weighted, the data are nationally representative of births in U.S. cities with populations of 200,000 or more.
9. See Earl Johnson, Ann Levine, and Fred Doolittle, Fathers' Fair Share: Helping Poor Fathers Manage Child Support and Fatherhood (Russell Sage Foundation, 1999).
10. Robert Wood and others, "The Building Strong Families Project: Strengthening Unmarried Parents' Relationships: The Early Impacts of Building Strong Families" (Mathematica Policy Research, May 2010). In eight sites across the country, 5,000 couples were randomly assigned to a Building Strong Families program or a control group after volunteering to participate. Data on whether the couples were more likely to stay together, get married, improve relationship quality, improve co-parenting, or increase father involvement were collected after fifteen months. When the results were averaged, no effects were found on these outcomes, with two exceptions. The Oklahoma City site had positive effects on a number of outcomes, though not marriage; the Baltimore site had negative effects, including an increase in domestic violence. The program also showed positive effects for relationship quality for couples in which both were African American.
11. Ronald Mincy, Jennifer Hill, and Marilyn Sinkewicz, Marriage: Cause or Mere Indicator of Future Earnings Growth? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 28, no. 3 (2009): 417-39.