FRAGILE FAMILIES AND CHILD WELLBEING

脆弱家庭和儿童福祉

• 批准号: 2705851
• 负责人: Sara McLanahan
• 金额: $ 60.08万
• 依托单位: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-02-01 至 2003-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2705851
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; child (0-11); clinical research; data collection; dyadic interaction; employment /unemployment; ethnic group; family structure /dynamics; generation difference; health care policy; health services research tag; health surveys; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; marriage /marital status; parent offspring interaction; public assistance; quality of life; racial /ethnic difference; siblings; socioeconomics

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study - a birth cohort study of unwed parents and their children - will provide previously unavailable information on: (l) the economic and social conditions of unwed fathers and mothers, (2) relationships in fragile families, including extended kin, (3) child and parental wellbeing, and (4) the role of labor markets, and government policies in promoting father involvement, good parenting, and healthy child development. The study addresses three NICHD priority areas - nonmarital childbearing, fathering, and welfare reform - and brings these three areas together in a unique fashion. The study will follow a cohort of new parents in sixteen U.S. cities, stratified by different labor market conditions and different welfare and child support policy regimes. The sample will be representative of the racial and ethnic composition of each city and will also be nationally representative of all nonmarital births to parents residing in cities with populations over 100,000. A comparison group of married parents will also be followed. In-hospital interviews will be conducted with both mothers and fathers at the time of birth, and follow-up interviews will be conducted when the child is 9, 18, 30, and 42 months old. Data on child wellbeing will be collected each year from the mother, and in-home assessments of child wellbeing will be carried out at the 30-month interview. Data on up to two siblings (and half siblings) will also be collected. The study will provide a rich set of data that will be useful to a broad range of researchers. It will also provide policy-makers with important information on the implementation of welfare and child support reforms and how they play out in different labor market environments.

脆弱家庭和儿童福祉研究——一项针对未婚父母及其子女的出生队列研究——将提供以前无法获得的信息：(l) 未婚父亲和母亲的经济和社会状况，(2) 脆弱家庭中的关系，包括大家庭kin，（3）儿童和父母的福祉，以及（4）劳动力市场的作用以及政府政策在促进父亲参与、良好养育和儿童健康发展方面的作用。该研究涉及 NICHD 的三个优先领域——非婚生育、父亲和福利改革——并以独特的方式将这三个领域结合在一起。该研究将跟踪美国十六个城市的一群新父母，根据不同的劳动力市场条件和不同的福利和儿童抚养政策制度进行分层。该样本将代表每个城市的种族和民族构成，也将代表全国范围内居住在人口超过 100,000 的城市的父母的所有非婚生育。 还将跟踪一组已婚父母。我们将在孩子出生时对母亲和父亲进行院内访谈，并在孩子 9、18、30 和 42 个月大时进行后续访谈。每年都会从母亲那里收集儿童健康状况的数据，并在为期 30 个月的访谈中对儿童健康状况进行家庭评估。还将收集最多两个兄弟姐妹（和同父异母兄弟姐妹）的数据。该研究将提供丰富的数据，对广大研究人员有用。它还将为政策制定者提供有关福利和儿童抚养改革的实施情况以及这些改革在不同劳动力市场环境中如何发挥作用的重要信息。