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Title: Fathers Unequal: Men as Partners and Parents in an Era of Rapid Family Change
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1. Carlson, Marcia Jeanne
Turner, Kimberly J.
Fathers Unequal: Men as Partners and Parents in an Era of Rapid Family Change
Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Family Influences; Fatherhood; Fathers; Fathers, Influence; Fathers, Involvement

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While the rising inequality in U.S. family life and its implications has received growing scholarly attention, less well understood is the fact that these family changes have had profoundly different implications for women versus men—mothers versus fathers. In the context of rising/high family instability, mothers are more likely to live with their children, while fathers are likely to live away from their children. In this paper, I present new evidence about fathers’ roles with children and rising inequality in fatherhood that has emerged over the last half century, drawing on data from the Current Population Survey (1976-2010) and the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Fathers’ diminished roles in family life—and growing inequality in such, likely has profound implications for children, mothers, fathers themselves, and society.
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Carlson, Marcia Jeanne and Kimberly J. Turner. "Fathers Unequal: Men as Partners and Parents in an Era of Rapid Family Change." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014.