The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 654

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, July 2014: Volume 654

Family Complexity, Poverty, and Public Policy

Family Complexity: Setting the Context
Marcia J. Carlson and Daniel R. Meyer

Fifty Years of Family Change: From Consensus to Complexity
Frank F. Furstenberg

Changes in Family Composition: Implications for Income, Poverty, and Public Policy
Maria Cancian and Ron Haskins

Family Complexity among Children in the United States
Wendy D. Manning, Susan L. Brown, and J. Bart Stykes

New Partners, More Kids: Multiple-Partner Fertility in the United States
Karen Benjamin Guzzo

Young Adults’ Roles as Partners and Parents in the Context of Family Complexity
Lawrence M. Berger and Sharon H. Bzostek

Grandparent Coresidence and Family Well-Being: Implications for Research and Policy
Rachel E. Dunifon, Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest, and Kimberly Kopko

Mass Incarceration, Family Complexity, and the Reproduction of Childhood Disadvantage
Bryan L. Sykes and Becky Pettit

Time Investments in Children across Family Structures
Ariel Kalil, Rebecca Ryan, and Elise Chor

The Family-Go-Round: Family Complexity and Father Involvement from a Father’s Perspective
Laura Tach, Kathryn Edin, Hope Harvey, and Brielle Bryan

Seeking Romance in the Crosshairs of Multiple-Partner Fertility: Ethnographic Insights on Low-Income Urban and Rural Mothers
Linda M. Burton

U.S. Social Policy and Family Complexity
Leonard M. Lopoo and Kerri M. Raissian

Family Complexity, the Family Safety Net, and Public Policy
Andrew J. Cherlin and Judith A. Seltzer

Family Complexity: Is It a Problem, and If So, What Should We Do?
Isabel Sawhill

Family Complexity in Europe
Elizabeth Thomson

Family Complexity: Implications for Policy and Research
Daniel R. Meyer and Marcia J. Carlson