Effects of Parent's Cohabitation on Transition to Adult

描述（由申请人提供）：父母同居是否与 艰难地过渡到成年？虽然有相当多的 关于父母离婚后果这一重要问题的研究， 再婚对孩子的幸福，很少有人知道， 同居的影响，尽管事实上，儿童的生活经验， 近年来，同居父母的数量迅速增加。大多数研究 研究离婚和再婚的影响忽略了同居， 将同居家庭等同于单亲家庭由于大部分 再婚之前的同居，这一疏忽可能会威胁到 过去工作的有效性。这项研究提高了我们对 童年时期的家庭经历与向 通过仔细区分同居家庭的经历和 通过区分同居家庭， 母亲的伴侣是孩子的生父 伴侣不是父亲的家庭， 以衡量家庭不稳定性的标准来衡量同居和同居。该项目的 目的是：a）构建儿童同居经验的衡量标准 家庭和测试这些措施的可靠性，B）计算期 儿童最近在同居家庭中的经历的估计数，c）模型 儿童期家庭结构与教育的关系 实现，婚前生育和工会的形成，和d）模型 家庭不稳定性与受教育程度、婚前 生育率和工会的形成。 为了实现这些目标，该项目使用 数据来自全国家庭和住户调查以及全国 家庭成长调查。NSFG受访者提供了有关其 整个童年的生活安排和完整的信息， 结果变量、受教育程度、婚前生育率和结合 阵对于NSFH女性受访者的焦点儿童，他们成为 第二波（1992-94）的受访者，我们也有他们的资料， 母亲的婚姻同居史和每一个措施的 过渡到成年。比例风险模型将对比儿童， 经历父母离婚，同居，再婚的孩子谁住 和父母在一起

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Is parental cohabitation associated with difficult transitions to adulthood? Although there has been considerable research on the important question of the consequences of parental divorce and remarriage on children's well being, little-to-nothing is known about the effects of cohabitation, despite the fact that children's experience living with a cohabiting parent rapidly increased in recent years. Most research examining the effects of divorce and remarriage have ignored cohabitation, equating cohabiting families with single-parent families. Since the majority of remarriages are preceded by cohabitation, this omission may threaten the validity of past work. This research improves our understanding of the relationship between family experiences during childhood and the transition to adulthood by carefully distinguishing experience in a cohabiting family from experience in a single- parent family, by distinguishing cohabiting families where mother's partner is the biological father of the child from cohabiting families where the partner is not the father, and by including transitions into and out of cohabitation in measures of family instability. The project's aims are to a) construct measures of children's experience in cohabiting households and test the reliability of these measures, b) calculate period estimates of children's recent experience in cohabiting households, c) model the relationship between childhood family structure and educational attainment, premarital fertility and union formation, and d) model the relationship between family instability and educational attainment, premarital fertility and union formation. To accomplish these goals this project uses data from the National Survey of Families and Households and the National Survey of Family Growth. The NSFG respondents provided information on their living arrangements throughout childhood and complete information each of the outcome variables, educational attainment, premarital fertility, and union formation. For the focal children of female NSFH respondents, who became respondents in the second wave (1992-94), we also have information about their mother's martial-cohabitation history and each of the measures of the transition to adulthood. Proportional hazard models will contrast children who experience parental divorce, cohabitation, and remarriage to children who live with both parents throughout childhood.