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  Journal of Marriage and FamilyVolume 70 Issue 2, Pages 452 - 465 Published Online: 7 Apr 2008 Copyright © National Council on Family Relations, 2010 Published on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 113K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Family Structure Effects on Maternal and Paternal Parenting in Low-Income Families Copyright © National Council on Family Relations, 2008 KEYWORDS
parenting
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living arrangements
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fragile families and child well-being
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cohabitation
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family structure
ABSTRACTUsing longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey, a birth cohort study, this study analyzes the effect of family structure on parenting for 3,402 mothers and 2,615 fathers. To address the problem of omitted variable bias, fixed effects methods are used to control for the presence of time-invariant unobserved characteristics that may counfound estimates. Marriage by itself did not influence the parenting of mothers or fathers, and there was little effect of family structure on maternal parenting. The presence of a romantic partner was important, as fathers who repartner had lower engagement scores and mothers reported cohabiting stepfathers to be more involved in the family's life as compared to married biological fathers. Received: 05 February 2008; Accepted: 04 April 2008; | 
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