CHILDREN'S FAMILY CONTEXTS ACROSS WESTERN SOCIETIES

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：这是一个请求， 小额赠款，以便为今后的项目奠定坚实的经验基础 这将寻求相关的经济，价值，社会和政策的相关性， 未婚生育、同居和 婚姻的稳定性对子女家庭生活的稳定性有不同的影响。 它建立在首席研究员先前研究这些问题的基础上。 更好地理解婚姻不断变化的意义的过程。的 家庭转型趋势对社会政策和 科学地理解不断变化的家庭生活，取决于 孩子拟议工作的目标是记录 在不断变化的社会中， 工会的成立和解散，关于生活安排的经历 孩子分析将开始于基于女性的”生育估计值 而单身或同居，和新的”措施的离婚和工会 破坏与儿童的结合。那么儿童的生命历程估计将 准备好按同居年龄、结婚年龄和结婚年龄 同居、婚姻、未婚生育、婚姻破裂、结合 婚姻破裂，再婚（团聚），婚姻破裂。作为 最后的总结措施，期间多状态寿命表程序将用于 估计儿童在单亲家庭中度过的比例， 一个家庭，一个已婚的家庭。 最后阶段将涉及年龄和教育差异的检查 在关键的过程中，考虑到单亲家庭与 在美国的经验和母亲的教育和年龄。变化 儿童家庭环境的稳定性和特点也将得到审查 与各国在该构成部分水平上的差异的关系 流程.各国将根据以下方面的相似性进行分组： 年龄和教育的影响和多变量分析将探讨在 多元标准化精神。这些汇总分析将针对以下两项进行： 利用5年期危害分析， 在面试之前，预测孩子们进入和离开的关键转变， 单亲家庭。 该项目的下一阶段预计将提交R01， 我将努力增加实质性的变量，以帮助理解模式， 水平无遮挡。目前的R03项目将提供一个坚实的经验， 选择关键国家的基础，并开始搜索 青年妇女就业、青年人的经济状况、住房 市场、家庭支助政策和其他相关变量， 了解同居何时与更大的不稳定性相关， 孩子们的生活（如在美国）而当它可能不是这样。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract): This is a request for a small grant in order to establish a solid empirical basis for future projects that will seek relevant economic, value, social, and policy correlates of similarities and differences in how unmarried childbearing, cohabitation, and union stability differentially impact the stability of children's family lives. It builds on the Principal Investigator's prior work in examining these processes to better understand the changing meaning of marriage. The significance of trends in family transitions, for both social policy and our scientific understanding of changing family life, hinges on the presence of children. The objective of the proposed work is to document the consequences across societies of changing nonunion birth, births in cohabiting unions, and union formation and dissolution, on the living-arrangement experiences of children. The analysis will begin with Awomen based" estimates of childbearing while single or cohabiting, and the Anew" measures of divorce and union disruption for unions with children. Then children's life-course estimates will be prepared of the cumulative experience by age of cohabitation, marriage given cohabitation, marriage given unmarried birth, marital disruption, union disruption, and remarriage (reunion) given marital (union) disruption. As a final summary measure, period multistate lifetable procedures will be used to estimate the proportion of childhood spent in a one-parent family, a cohabiting family, and a married family. The final stage will involve the examination of age and education differences in key processes, given the strong relationship between single-parent experience and mother's education and age in the United States. Variation in the stability and character of children's family contexts will also be examined in relationship to variations across countries in the levels of the component processes. Countries will be grouped according to similarities with respect to age and education effects and multivariate analysis will be explored in the spirit of multiple standardization. These pooled analyses will be done for both the women and the children files using hazard analyses for the 5-year period before interview and predicting key transitions that move children into and out of single-parent families. The next phase of this project, for which an R01 submission is anticipated, will move towards adding substantive variables to help understand the patterns and level uncovered. The current R03 project would provide a solid empirical basis for selecting key countries and a beginning search for data on the employment of young women, economic circumstances of young people, housing markets, family support policies and other relevant variables in the attempt to understand when cohabitation is associated with greater instability in children's lives (as it is in the U.S.) and when it may not be so.