eprintid: 10047237 rev_number: 29 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/04/72/37 datestamp: 2018-04-24 16:52:25 lastmod: 2021-09-17 23:03:28 status_changed: 2018-04-24 16:52:25 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Tarek, Mostafa creators_name: Ludovica, Gambaro creators_name: Heather, Joshi title: The Impact of Complex Family Structure on Child Well‐being: Evidence From Siblings ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J81 keywords: child well‐being, family structure, longitudinal research, siblings, stepfamilies note: Copyright © 2018 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. abstract: Evidence from the United Kingdom Millennium Cohort on children at ages 3 and 5 with older siblings addresses the questions of whether those living with both biological parents and only full siblings have better emotional and behavior outcomes than other children, and whether nonfull siblings affect children's outcomes independently of parents' partnership status. Adjusting for measured family circumstances and resources in cross?sectional regressions accounted for much of the adverse association of family complexity with child outcomes. Controlling for unobserved family and child fixed effects did not, however, attenuate all estimates further. Fixed unobservable factors appeared to be masking underlying associations. Allowing for them intensified some, albeit modest, estimates. These revealed excess externalizing behavior problems for boys with single or stepparents but only full siblings. For girls with single mothers, the chances of internalizing problems were raised. Whether siblings were full or not made little difference to outcomes in general. date: 2018-08 publisher: Wiley/Blackwell (10.1111) official_url: https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12456 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1549677 doi: 10.1111/jomf.12456 lyricists_name: Gambaro, Ludovica lyricists_name: Joshi, Heather lyricists_name: Mostafa, Tarek lyricists_id: LGAMB04 lyricists_id: HEJOS44 lyricists_id: TMOST85 actors_name: Bracey, Alan actors_id: ABBRA90 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Journal of Marriage and Family volume: 80 number: 4 pagerange: 902-918 issn: 0022-2445 citation: Tarek, Mostafa; Ludovica, Gambaro; Heather, Joshi; (2018) The Impact of Complex Family Structure on Child Well‐being: Evidence From Siblings. Journal of Marriage and Family , 80 (4) pp. 902-918. 10.1111/jomf.12456 <https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12456>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10047237/1/Mostafa_et_al-2017-Journal_of_Marriage_and_Family.pdf