James L. Peterson

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of marital disruption on children's behavior, accounting for variations in post-disruption living arrangements, parent-child relationships and marital conflict, were examined.

TL;DR: In a preliminary analysis of data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. children aged 11 to 16 in 1981, the authors examined the incidence of marital disruption in children's lives, the type of living arrangements children experience following a disruption, and the amount of contact children maintain with the outside parent as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that in a national US sample of youth aged 15-16, African-Americans are about 4 times more likely than whites to report ever having intercourse.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that parental communication and monitoring of adolescent children will discourage premarital sexual activity is examined among white 15 and 16-year-olds interviewed in the 1981 US National Survey of Children as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Data from the 1987 round of the National Survey of Children indicate that seven percent of Americans aged 18-22 have experienced at least one episode of nonvoluntary sexual intercourse, and women were more likely than men to report having had such an experience.