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Dr. Susan Stewart • Associate Professor
Dr Stewart’s area of expertise is family demography, the statistical study of families and households in terms of their formation, dissolution, and change over time. Her research uses large national datasets to examine structural diversity, parent-child relationships, fertility, parental involvement, and child and adult well-being in nontraditional family forms. With funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Joint Center for Poverty Research, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Dr. Stewart is investigating race and gender differences in nonresident parental involvement (child support and visitation) and its relationship to children’s well-being, the relationship between food insecurity, family stress, and childhood obesity, eating patterns and obesity among children in nontraditional families, and new stepfamily forms and patterns such as stepchild adoption. Dr. Stewart recently completed her first book, Brave New Stepfamilies: Diverse Paths toward Stepfamily Living (Sage, 2007). |
What's New with Dr. Stewart Malone, K., STEWART, S. D., Wilson, J., & Korsching, P. (Forthcoming 2009) “Perceptions of financial well-being among American women in diverse families.” Journal of Family and Economic Issues. STEWART, S. D., & Menning, C. L. (Forthcoming 2009) “Family structure, Nonresident father involvement, and adolescent eating patterns.” Journal of Adolescent Health. Lohman, B. J., STEWART, S. D., Gundersen, C., Garasky, S., & Eisenmann, J. C. (Forthcoming 2009) “Adolescent Overweight & Obesity: Links to Food Insecurity and Individual, Maternal, and Family Stressors.” Journal of Adolescent Health. Other Projects Iowa State studies assess factors affecting osteoporosis, children's obesity ISU study finds link between individual stress and teens being overweight or obese Interview with Jacquelyn B. Fletcher, author of A Career Girl's Guide to Becoming a Stepmom. ISU study finds women expect to care for parents, but few prepare for it ISU sociologist, stepfamily researcher reports realities of more unmarried women |
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