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Journal Article 1: Relationship Churning

Description: This investigation probes two forms of relationship instability among emerging adults--reconciliations and sex-with-an-ex. These types of relationship churning tend to be unhealthy.

Journal Article 2: Poverty among Grandmother-Headed Families

Description: This article extends the textbook’s treatment of nonnuclear family forms by exploring poverty among grandmother-headed families. Poverty is most prevalent among families headed by Black or younger grandmothers, and among families in which grandmothers but not parents are present (i.e., skipped-generation families.)