In this chapter, the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is used to explore child health differences by family structure. This analysis extends the existing literature to look across the first four sweeps of the MCS to examine changes in health between and within family structure, taking account of child, mother and area characteristics. The results suggest that children in lone-parent families have poorer general health scores at all ages, although the gap with those living in two-parent families reduces over time. Boys, children with black and minority ethnic heritage, those with a non-graduate mother and those living in areas with higher levels of deprivation have more of a lone-parent penalty to health. The results highlight the complexity of...
"Families produce health, but changes in familial structures are made responsible for many negative ...
This study compares the health and socio-demographic characteristics of residentially mobile familie...
Abstract: Families produce health, but changes in familial structures are made re-sponsible for many...
Objectives: An increasing number of children are born to unmarried parents due to an increase in lon...
Background: Despite rises in reconstituted and lone-parent families, relatively little is known abou...
This chapter has two key aims; firstly to chart the increase in lone parent families in the UK over ...
Background: In the UK, lone mothers receiving income support are required to seek work as a conditi...
The number of families headed by lone mothers in Great Britain is increasing and many of these women...
The life expectancy of the English population has increased but health inequalities have increased a...
Children live in increasingly varied family structures and there is some suggestion that children wh...
Background: Children from certain family backgrounds, particularly those living with single parents,...
Background: Lone parents experience poorer health and socioeconomic disadvantage compared to coupled...
International research has shown that lone mothers are a socially and economically disadvantaged gro...
Objective: To test the hypothesis that material disadvantage explains the increased risk among child...
This article develops a typology of family change over the first five years of children's lives usin...
"Families produce health, but changes in familial structures are made responsible for many negative ...
This study compares the health and socio-demographic characteristics of residentially mobile familie...
Abstract: Families produce health, but changes in familial structures are made re-sponsible for many...
Objectives: An increasing number of children are born to unmarried parents due to an increase in lon...
Background: Despite rises in reconstituted and lone-parent families, relatively little is known abou...
This chapter has two key aims; firstly to chart the increase in lone parent families in the UK over ...
Background: In the UK, lone mothers receiving income support are required to seek work as a conditi...
The number of families headed by lone mothers in Great Britain is increasing and many of these women...
The life expectancy of the English population has increased but health inequalities have increased a...
Children live in increasingly varied family structures and there is some suggestion that children wh...
Background: Children from certain family backgrounds, particularly those living with single parents,...
Background: Lone parents experience poorer health and socioeconomic disadvantage compared to coupled...
International research has shown that lone mothers are a socially and economically disadvantaged gro...
Objective: To test the hypothesis that material disadvantage explains the increased risk among child...
This article develops a typology of family change over the first five years of children's lives usin...
"Families produce health, but changes in familial structures are made responsible for many negative ...
This study compares the health and socio-demographic characteristics of residentially mobile familie...
Abstract: Families produce health, but changes in familial structures are made re-sponsible for many...