Family structure and children’s cognitive development

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1332/204674321X16173127687750

K. Lee, Julie E. Artis, Yaqi Yuan, Sibo Zhao

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Abstract

Previous research on family structure and child development has largely focused on the disadvantages faced by children who transitioned out of married families. However, we know less about how family structure affects child outcomes for children starting out in single-mother families. In this article, we use the kindergarten cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to analyse children’s academic outcomes between kindergarten and eighth grade. We found that living in single-mother or step-families was clearly associated with lower test scores for children starting kindergarten in married biological-parent families, but the same disadvantages associated with living outside a married biological-parent family structure were not found for children starting kindergarten in single-mother families. We also found preliminary evidence of a buffering effect of maternal education in the relationship between family structure and children’s academic outcomes.

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家庭结构与儿童认知发展

以前关于家庭结构和儿童发展的研究主要集中在从已婚家庭过渡的儿童所面临的不利条件上。然而，对于单亲家庭的孩子，家庭结构如何影响孩子的成长，我们知之甚少。在本文中，我们使用幼儿纵向研究中的幼儿园队列来分析幼儿园至八年级儿童的学业成绩。我们发现，生活在单亲家庭或继家庭的孩子在已婚亲生父母家庭中进入幼儿园的考试成绩明显较低，但在单身母亲家庭中进入幼儿园的孩子没有发现生活在已婚亲生父母家庭结构之外的同样的劣势。我们还发现初步证据表明，在家庭结构和儿童学业成绩之间的关系中，母亲教育起到了缓冲作用。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.