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10-05-ff.pdf: Housing Insecurity among Urban Fathers

Marah Curtis and Amanda Geller

10-04-ff.pdf: Neighborhood Context, Poverty, and Urban Children's Outdoor Play

Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Sara McLanahan

10-ff-wilson2.pdf: THE INFLUENCE OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS ON FATHERS' BEHAVIORS AND ATTITUDES

Melvin Wilson, LaKeesha Woods and Karen Schmidt

10-01-ff.pdf: How Representative Are the Fragile Families Study Families?: A Comparison of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort and Fragile Families Samples

Robert Wagmiller, Jr.

09-24-ff.pdf: Mothers' Investments in Child Health in the U.S. and U.K.: A Comparative Lens on the Immigrant 'Paradox'

Margot Jackson, Sara McLanahan and Kathleen Kiernan

09-23-ff.pdf: Religious Heterogamy and Relationship Stability: A Comparison of Married and Cohabiting Unions

Richard Petts

09-22-ff.pdf: Fathers' Religious Involvement and Early Childhood Behavior

Richard Petts

09-21-ff.pdf: Early Childhood Residential Instability and School Readiness: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Kathleen Ziol-Guest and Claire McKenna

09-20-ff.pdf: Beyond Absenteeism: Father Incarceration and its Effects on Children's Development

Amanda Geller, Carey Cooper, Irwin Garfinkel, Ofira Schwartz-Soicher and Ronald Mincy

09-19-ff.pdf: Parental Incarceration, Child Homelessness, and the Invisible Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

Christopher Wildeman

09-18-ff.pdf: Paternal Psychosocial Characteristics and Corporal Punishment of their 3-Year Old Children

Shawna Lee, Brian Perron, Catherine Taylor and Neil Guterman

09-13-ff.pdf: Coparenting in Fragile Families

Marcia Carlson and Robin Högnäs

09-10-ff.pdf: Economic Trajectories in Non-Traditional Families with Children

Sara McLanahan, Jean Knab and Sarah Meadows

09-09-ff.pdf: Maintaining Work: The Influence of Child Care Subsidies on Child Care-Related Work

Nicole Forry and Sandra Hofferth

09-07-ff.pdf: Education Delayed: Family Structure and Postnatal Educational Attainment

Carol Ann MacGregor

09-06-ff.pdf: Associations among Family Environment, Attention, and School Readiness for At-Risk Children

Rachel Razza, Anne Martin and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

09-05-ff.pdf: Educational Assortative Mating and Children's School Readiness

Audrey Beck and Carlos Gonzalez-Sancho

09-04-ff.pdf: Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status

Tara Watson and Sara McLanahan

09-03-ff.pdf: The Mental Health of Mothers and Fathers Before and After Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution

Claire Kamp Dush and Kate Adkins

09-02-ff.pdf: Unmarried Fathers' Earnings Trajectories: Does Partnership Status Matter?

Irwin Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, Sarah Meadows and Ronald Mincy

09-01-ff.pdf: Application of Belsky's Parenting Stress Model to Hispanic Mothers: A Racial and Ethnic Comparative Analysis

Jodi Berger Cardoso, McClain Sampson and Yolanda Chavez Padilla

08-18-ff.pdf: Maternal Employment After a Birth: Examining Variations by Family Structure

Christine Percheski

08-15-ff.pdf: Immigration and low birthweight in the US: The role of time and timing

Lisa Bates and Julien Teitler

08-14-ff.pdf: Implications of Violent and Controlling Unions for Mothers' Mental Health and Leaving

Kate Adkins and Claire Kamp Dush

08-13-ff.pdf: The Effects of Maternal Employment on Childhood Obesity in the United States

Jackie Araneo

08-12-ff.pdf: Relationship Transitions and Maternal Parenting

Audrey Beck, Carey Cooper, Sara McLanahan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

08-09-ff.pdf: Incarceration and Support for Children in Fragile Families

Amanda Geller, Irwin Garfinkel and Bruce Western

08-07-ff.pdf: The Relative Effects of Family Instability and Mother/Partner Conflict on Children's Externalizing Behavior

Paula Fomby and Cynthia Osborne

08-05-ff.pdf: Unwed Mothers' Private Safety Nets and Children's Socioemotional Wellbeing

Rebecca Ryan, Ariel Kalil and Lindsey Leininger

08-03-ff.pdf: Effects of Paternal Presence and Family Stability on Child Cognitive Performance

Terry-Ann Craigie

08-02-ff.pdf: Paternal Incarceration and Children's Aggressive Behaviors: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Christopher Wildeman

08-01-ff.pdf: The Consequences of Couples' Pregnancy Intentions for Early Parental Behaviors and Infant Health: Does It Matter Who Is Asked?

Maureen Waller and Marianne Bitler

07-13-ff.pdf: Language of Interview and the Subjectively-Rated Health of Hispanic Mothers and their Children

Maren Jiminez, Xiuhong You, Yolanda Padilla and Daniel Powers

07-12-ff.pdf: Are Social Welfare Policies "Pro-Life"? An Individual-Level Analysis of Low-Income Women

Laura Hussey

07-10-ff.pdf: The Effects of Welfare and Child Support Policies on the Timing and Incidence of Marriage Following a Nonmarital Birth

Jean Knab, Irv Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, Emily Moiduddin and Cynthia Osborne

07-09-ff.pdf: Is Marriage Protective for all Children? Cumulative Risks at Birth and Subsequent Child Behavior among Urban Families

Cynthia Osborne

07-08-ff.pdf: Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Residential Stability, and Perceptions of Social Support among New Mothers

Kristin Turney and Kristen Harknett

07-06-ff.pdf: Bendito Amor: Religion and Relationships among Married and Unmarried Latinos in Urban America

W. Bradford Wilcox and Edwin Hernández

07-03-ff.pdf: Money, Honey if You Want to Get Along With Me: Money Management and Union Dissolution in Marriage and Cohabitation

Catherine Kenney and Ryan Bogle

07-02-ff.pdf: Should We Get Married? The Effect of Parents' Marriage on Out-of-Wedlock Children

Shirley Liu and Frank Heiland

07-01-ff.pdf: Mental Illness as a Barrier to Marriage Among Mothers With Out-of-Wedlock Births

Julien Teitler and Nancy Reichman

06-35-ff.pdf: Crime and Circumstance: The Effects of Infant Health Shocks on Fathers' Criminal Activity

Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, Nancy Reichman and Ofira Schwartz-Soicher

06-31-ff.pdf: Segregation, the Concentration of Poverty, and Birth Weight

Emily Moiduddin and Douglas Massey

06-28-ff.pdf: The Consequences of Multi-partnered Fertility for Parental Involvement and Relationships

Marcia Carlson and Frank Furstenberg, Jr.

06-24-ff.pdf: Identifying the Associations between Child Temperament and Father Involvement: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Selva Lewin-Bizan

06-20-ff.pdf: Missing Work and Quitting Work: Child Care-Related Employment Problems

Margaret Usdansky and Douglas Wolf

06-10-ff.pdf: THE EFFECTS OF HEALTH ON HEALTH INSURANCE STATUS IN FRAGILE FAMILIES

Hope Corman, Anne Carroll, Kelly Noonan and Nancy Reichman

06-09-ff.pdf: Child Support Enforcement and Fathers' Contributions to Their Nonmarital Children

Lenna Nepomnyaschy and Irwin Garfinkel

06-07-ff.pdf: Abusive Romantic Relationships among Adolescent and Young Adult Mothers

Suzanne Leaman and Christina Gee

06-04-ff.pdf: The Effects of Welfare and Child Support Policies on Maternal Health and Wellbeing

Jean Knab, Sara McLanahan and Irv Garfinkel