Abstract
* Foreword * Preface * Acknowledgments * Chapter 1. Historical Background of the Study * Chronological Highlights * Historical and Contemporary Facts Regarding Family Structure * Chapter 2. Research Regarding the Effects of Family Structure on Children * The Effects of Divorce on Academic Achievement: Research Results * The Effects of Remarriage Following Divorce on Academic Achievement * The Emotional and Psychological Effects of Divorce on Children * Circumstances That Can Influence the Effects of Divorce * The Influence of Time on the Effects of Divorce * The Effects of Divorce by Race * Chapter 3. Methodological Issues in Research on Divorce and Family Structure * Theory and Research Literature * Relevant Research Syntheses and Meta-Analyses * Methods * Models * Chapter 4. The Problems with Using Socioeconomic Status in Research * The Importance of Using SES Variables * The Issue of Causality * Predisruption versus Postdisruption Variables * Chapter 5. Problems Involving Analysis of Socioeconomic Status * Predisruption SES Variables * Results Using the Postdisruption SES Measures * Obtaining Effects for Divorce Using a Predisruption Control for SES * Discussion * Chapter 6. Determining the Effects for Remarriage * Results for Study Number 1 * Discussion * Results for Study Number 2 * Discussion * Chapter 7. Remarriage and Mobility * Hypotheses and Analyses Undertaken * Results * Discussion * Chapter 8. The Effects of Living with Neither Parent on Academic Achievement * Results * Discussion * Chapter 9. The Effects of the Most Common Family Structures on Academic Achievement * Theoretical Framework * Family Structure Variables * Discussion * Chapter 10. Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Remarriage Following Divorce on Academic Achievement * Methods and Data Sources * Models * Results * Discussion * Chapter 11. Testing Other Important Hypotheses * The Proper Category Hypothesis * Custodial Parent's Gender Hypothesis * The Distinction Hypothesis * Chapter 12. What Does It All Mean? * Consequences of Underestimating Influence of Family Structure * Sensitizing Educators to the Challenges of Children from Nontraditional Families * Alternative Ways to Control for SES * Summary * References * Index
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