Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, Baltimore, Maryland. Baseline Report:August 23, 2000

摘要

Baltimore, Maryland is one of twenty cities across the United States in whichparents are participating in a study of 'Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing'. The study follows a new birth cohort of approximately 5000 children in an effort to learn more about the fastest growing group of families in the United States today unmarried parents and their children. The Study addresses four major questions: What are the conditions and capabilities of new unmarried parents, especially fathers; What is the nature of the relationship between unmarried parents; What factors push new unmarried parents together; What are the long-term consequences for parents, children, and society of new welfare regulations, stronger paternity establishment and stricter child support enforcement, and changes in health care and childcare financing and delivery.