What are the key recent and long-term changes in family formation? What are the implications for the wellbeing of families and children, especially in the current economic context? What policy innovations are needed to support parents and children given increasingly complex family situations?

Maria Cancian, Ph.D., Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work, and an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Center for Demography and Ecology, La Follette School of Public Affairs, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison