PARENT'S COHABITATION ON TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD

描述(由申请人提供)：父母同居是否与 到成年的艰难过渡？尽管已经有相当多的 父母离婚后果的重大问题及对策研究 再婚对孩子的幸福，几乎什么都不知道 同居的影响，尽管事实上儿童的生活经历 近些年来，与父母同居的人数迅速增加。大多数研究 研究离婚和再婚的影响时忽略了同居， 将同居家庭等同于单亲家庭。因为大多数人 再婚之前都有同居，这种疏漏可能会威胁到 过去工作的有效性。这项研究加深了我们对 儿童时期的家庭经历与过渡到 通过仔细区分同居家庭的经历和成年经历来实现成年 通过区分同居家庭，体验单亲家庭 其中母亲的伴侣是同居孩子的生父 配偶不是父亲的家庭，并通过包括过渡 进入和离开同居的家庭不稳定的衡量标准。该项目的 目标是a)构建儿童同居体验的测量方法 家庭和检验这些措施的可靠性，b)计算周期 对儿童最近同居家庭经历的估计，c)模型 儿童期家庭结构与教育的关系 获得、婚前生育和婚姻形成，以及d)建立 家庭不稳定与受教育程度、婚前状况的关系 生育力和结合的形成。为了实现这些目标，该项目使用 来自全国家庭和家庭调查和国家统计局的数据 家庭成长调查。NSFG的受访者提供了有关其 整个童年的生活安排和完整的信息，每个 结果变量、教育程度、婚前生育率和婚姻 队形。对于NSFH女性受访者的重点儿童，她们成为 在第二波(1992-94)受访者中，我们也有关于他们的信息 母亲的婚姻同居史和每一项措施 向成人期过渡。比例风险模型将对比那些 经历父母离婚、同居和与在世子女再婚 从小到大都和父母在一起。

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.