Maternal Education, Family Formation, and Child Development: The Continuing Significance of Race.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Family formation patterns and their attendant benefits for children have diverged by maternal education in recent decades, but has there been racial variation in these trends?

Background

Theories of intersectionality and structural racism suggest that relationships between women's educational attainment, family formation, and benefits for children may differ between Black, Hispanic, and White women who have completed the same amount of schooling.

Method

Using longitudinal data on mothers and children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (https://nces.ed.gov/ecls/kindergarten2011.asp), descriptive statistics examine racial variation within maternal education groups on a number of family formation characteristics. A series

SUBMITTER: Conwell JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11801227 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature