Changes in Household Composition and Children's Educational Attainment.
Changes in parental romantic relationships are an important component of family instability, but children are exposed to many other changes in the composition of their households that bear on child well-being. Prior research that focused on parental transitions has thus overlooked a substantial sour...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 525 - 549 |
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