Center for Family and Demographic Research

This new working group is a forum for CFDR faculty affiliates to discuss research on the impact of parenthood on adult well-being in the contemporary context. The working group will consider the growing diversity in how parenthood and the experience of parenting affect adults’ economic, psychological, and relationship well-being.  Please contact Karen Guzzo or Kei Nomaguchi if you would like to join this group.

Monday, March 12
12:00-1:00 pm
Tomei Conference Room, 207 Williams Hall

Readings for this meeting are:

• Roy, K. and O. Dyson. 2010. Making Daddies into Fathers: Community-Based Fatherhood Programs and the Construction of Masculinity for Low-Income African American Men. American Journal of Community Psychology 45: 139-154. http://www.springerlink.com/content/9401625741q0414k/fulltext.pdf
• J. Fagan, R. Palkovitz, K. Roy, and D. Farrie. 2009. Pathways to Paternal Engagement: Longitudinal Effects of Risk and Resilience on Nonresident Fathers. Developmental Psychology 45:1389-1405. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/dev/45/5/1389.pdf
• Roy, K. and K. Lucas. 2006. “Generativity as a Second Chance: Low-Income Fathers and Transformation of the Difficult Path.” Research in Human Development 3: 139-159.http://0-journals.ohiolink.edu.maurice.bgsu.edu/ejc/article.cgi?issn=15427609&issue=v3i2-3&article=139_gasclfatotdp
  

Monday, February 13
12:00-1:00 pm
CFDR/NCFMR Conference Room, 7C Williams Hall

Readings for this meeting are:

• Williams, Kristi, Sharon Sassler, and Lisa Nicholson. 2008. For Better or for Worse? The Consequences of Marriage and Cohabitation for the Health and Well-Being of Single Mothers. Social Forces. Vol. 86, no. 4. : 1481-1511. http://0-journals.ohiolink.edu.maurice.bgsu.edu/ejc/pdf.cgi/Williams_Kristi.pdf?issn=15347605&issue=v86i0004&article=1481_fbofwtmacfsm
• Carlson, Daniel and Kristi Williams. 2011. Parenthood, Life Course Expectations, and Mental Health. Society and Mental Health. Vol. 1, no. 1. : 20-40. http://www.asanet.org/images/journals/docs/pdf/smh/Mar11SMHFeature.pdf
• Williams, Kristi, Sharon Sassler, Adrianne Frech, Elizabeth Cooksey, and Fenaba Adoo. 2011. Nonmarital Fertility, Union History and Health at Midlife. American Sociological Review. Vol. 3, no. 76. : 465-486. http://asr.sagepub.com/content/76/3/465.full.pdf+html
  

Monday, January 30
12:00-1:00 pm
CFDR/NCMFR Conference Room

Readings for this meeting are:

• Keeton, C., M. Perry-Jenkins, M. & A. Sayer. 2008.   Sense of control predicts depressive and anxious symptoms across the transition to parenthood. Journal of Family Psychology 22: 212-221. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/fam/22/2/212.pdf
• Perry-Jenkins, M., A. Goldberg, C. Pierce, & A.  Sayer. 2007.   Shift work, role overload and the transition to parenthood.   Journal of Marriage and the Family 69: 123-138. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00349.x/pdf  
• Perry‐Jenkins, M., J. Z. Smith, A. E. Goldberg, & J. Logan, Jade. 2011. Working-Class Jobs and New Parents' Mental Health. Journal of Marriage and Family 73: 1117-1132. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00871.x/pdf