Approximately 40 percent of children are now born to unmarried parents, and our estimates suggest that most of these parents will go on to have children with other partners. The resulting complex families, together with changing employment patterns lead most mothers, as well as fathers, to work outside the home, raises challenges for research and policy.
Timothy Biblarz and Judith Stacey, Discussant: Joseph Pleck
Timothy Biblarz, Ph.D., University of Southern California, and Judith Stacey, Ph.D., New York University, lead this signature plenary session. In their JMF article in February, Timothy Biblarz and Judith Stacey challenged the idea that “fatherless” children are necessarily at a disadvantage or that men provide a different, indispensable set of parenting skills than women.
