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Transition to Parenthood: Young Mothers, Young Fathers - Associated factors and later life experiences. (Version published as Becoming a Parent: A Longitudinal Study of Associated Factors, in British Journal of Sociology, 48(3), 1997)

Kathleen E Kiernan

Non-residential Fatherhood and Child Involvement: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study

Kathleen E Kiernan

Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neither cohabiting nor married. Little is known about non-residential fatherhood that commences with the birth of a child. Here, we use the Millennium Co...Read more...

May 2005

CASEpaper

Cohabitation and divorce across nations and generations

Kathleen E Kiernan

Parental divorce has been an increasing experience amongst the generations of children born since the 1970s in European countries. This study analyses data on the partnership and parenthood behaviour of those children wh...Read more...

March 2003

CASEpaper

Childhood Poverty, Early Motherhood and Adult Social Exclusion

John Hobcraft and Kathleen E Kiernan

Childhood poverty and early parenthood are both high on the political agenda. The key new issue addressed in this research is the relative importance of childhood poverty and of early motherhood as correlates of outcomes...Read more...

July 1999

CASEpaper

The Divorced and Who Divorces? (published as ch.16 in 'Changing Britain: Families and Households in the 1990s', S McRae (ed), OUP, 1999)

Kathleen E Kiernan and Ganka Mueller

The Family Resources Survey was used to identify the characteristics of the divorced population and two longitudinal studies, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the National Child Development Study (NCDS) were...Read more...

May 1998

CASEpaper

The Legacy of Parental Divorce: Social, economic and demographic experiences in adulthood

Kathleen E Kiernan

This study addresses three questions. Firstly, to what extent does divorce during childhood have long-term consequences for the educational attainment, economic situation, partnership formation and dissolution, and paren...Read more...

October 1997

WSP Discussion Paper

Becoming a Parent in Europe

John Hobcraft and Kathleen E Kiernan