Unwed Mothers' Private Safety Nets and Children's Socioemotional Wellbeing

Rebecca Ryan, Ariel Kalil and Lindsey Leininger
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Rebecca Ryan: University of Chicago
Ariel Kalil: University of Chicago
Lindsey Leininger: University of Chicago

No 1017, Working Papers from Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing.

Abstract: Using longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 1,162) and the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (N = 1,308), we estimate associations between material and instrumental support available to unwed, low-income mothers and young children?s socioemotional wellbeing. In multivariate OLS models, we find mothers' available support is negatively associated with children's behavior problems and positively associated with prosocial behavior in both datasets; associations between available support and children's internalizing and prosocial behaviors attenuate but remain robust in residualized change models. Overall, results support the hypothesis that the availability of a private safety net is positively associated with children's socioemotional adjustment.

Date: 2008-03
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