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.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Impact of Complex Family Structure on Child Well‐being: Evidence From Siblings |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jomf.12456 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12456 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | 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. |
| Keywords: | child well‐being, family structure, longitudinal research, siblings, stepfamilies |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10047237 |
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