{"id":102,"date":"2008-04-30T11:53:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T17:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/2008\/04\/30\/new-study-on-blended-families\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T22:53:43","slug":"new-study-on-blended-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/04\/30\/new-study-on-blended-families\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study on &#8216;Blended Families&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New researcher out from Florida State University shows that teenagers who are living with one biological and one step-parent have lower grades and significantly greater behavioral problems than adolescents from intact families. Further, the study suggests that these problems increase over time. Kathryn Tillman and co-investigators studied data on 11,000 adolescents for this new study, published in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/wps\/find\/journaldescription.cws_home\/622946\/description#description\">Social Science Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The authors found heightened negative effects for boys living with half-siblings or step-siblings on behavioral measures and concluded that teens who live with <em>both <\/em>half-siblings <em>and<\/em> step-siblings than those who live with one or the other.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/lifestyle\/parenting\/story.html?id=73099e11-1564-41e1-bd94-129a842dad8a&amp;k=56076\">Reuters reports: <\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;&#8216;These findings imply that family formation patterns that bring together children who have different sets of biological parents may not be in the best interests of the children involved,&#8217; said Kathryn Harker Tillman, a professor of sociology at the university.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;&#8230;One half of all American step-families include children from previous relationships of both partners, and the majority of parents in step-families go on to have additional children together,&#8217; she added in a statement.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New researcher out from Florida State University shows that teenagers who are living with one biological and one step-parent have lower grades and significantly greater behavioral problems than adolescents from intact families. Further, the study suggests that these problems increase over time. Kathryn Tillman and co-investigators studied data on 11,000 adolescents for this new study, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[34,70],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-education","tag-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}