Research Digest

The odds of school success are more favorable for those from families headed by married, biological parents. In fact, family structure matters more than ever. [Nicholas Zill and Brad Wilcox [...]

Statistics Canada is presenting population projections on immigration and ethnocultural diversity in that country. READ MORE

This study investigates mental health inequalities by family type and gender during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. READ MORE

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically upended the lives of parents and children in a multitude of ways. As a result, infants and toddlers spent most of their earliest years at home, with limited [...]

The study found lower fertility rates in unions after 2010, increasing dissolution rates amongst cohabiting couples, and long-term declines in the transition to marriage. READ MORE

Despite the disruptions to family routines caused by the pandemic, academic institutions have expected academic mothers and fathers to continue undertaking their professional responsibilities at [...]

Although much attention has been paid to the idea of work-life balance, many of us were never taught or formally trained as to what that constitutes, how to achieve it, or how to maintain [...]

This survey is the first with significant geographic scope and a comprehensive approach that includes a wide range of family-friendly policies – from parental leave and breastfeeding support to [...]

Cohabitation has become a universal form of first union regardless of socio-economic background or educational level, usually ending in separation. [Alina Pelikha, Júlia Mikolaib, Hill Kulub [...]

Daily lives of families raising 6-month-old children, together with the development of those children after the gestation period and the course of childbirth and its circumstances, as well as at [...]