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Author: Blumenthal, Connie
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1. Morrison, Donna Ruane
Coiro, Mary Jo
Blumenthal, Connie
Marital Disruption, Conflict, and the Well Being of Children and Youth
Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994. Revised August 1994; Child Trends paper 94-12.
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Well-Being; Divorce; Educational Attainment; Family Circumstances, Changes in; Fathers, Absence; Gender Differences; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Income; Marital Disruption; Marital Stability; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty

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Recent studies using prospective data have revealed that many of the problems experienced by children of divorce can be traced to experiences that actually predated the break-up. Family conflict is key among the predisruption factors that affect child well-being. In this paper we examine whether the effect of marital disruption on children and young adults depends on the quality of the parental marriage prior to the disruption. We use longitudinal data from two complementary national-level data bases--the National Survey of Children to examine postdisruption well-being in young adulthood, and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - Supplement to examine outcomes among school-aged children. Because of documented differences in the way that boys and girls respond to psychosocial stress, we conduct our analyses separately by sex.
Bibliography Citation
Morrison, Donna Ruane, Mary Jo Coiro and Connie Blumenthal. "Marital Disruption, Conflict, and the Well Being of Children and Youth." Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994. Revised August 1994; Child Trends paper 94-12.
2. Sugland, Barbara W.
Blumenthal, Connie
Moore, Kristin Anderson
Social Capital and the Normative Order of Life Events Among At-Risk Female Youth
Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Childbearing; Disadvantaged, Economically; Event History; First Birth; High School Completion/Graduates; Labor Force Participation; Life Cycle Research; Marriage; Racial Differences; School Completion

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This paper explores the mediating effects of family-based social capital on the normative order of life events among at-risk female youth. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women are used to examine the transition to: 1) high school completion, 2) consistent labor force participation, 3) first birth, and 4) first marriage. Female adolescents 14 to 16 years of age in 1968 constitute the study sample. Young women are observed for a period of 20 years (1968 to 1988). Findings indicate strong racial disparities in the dominant order of life events for young women. Specifically, whites are significantly more likely than blacks to complete high school before any other life event. Black women are significantly more likely than white women to experience a first birth prior to a transition to work, school completion, or marriage, and enter the labor force last in the sequence of observed life events. The normative order of life trajectories is unaffected by risk status, irrespective of race. Exposure to family-based social capital increases the likelihood of high school completion and stable employment before marriage and childbearing, particularly among at-risk black women. Social capital also significantly contributes to eventual high school completion among young school-age mothers. The need to examine cultural differences in the normative order of life events, and the need for further exploration of positive supports disadvantaged families provide for their children is discussed.
Bibliography Citation
Sugland, Barbara W., Connie Blumenthal and Kristin Anderson Moore. "Social Capital and the Normative Order of Life Events Among At-Risk Female Youth." Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995.