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Negative Effects of Half-Siblings
– Reported, August 15 2013
(Ivanhoe Newswire) Researchers from Bowling Green State University and Iowa State University have concluded that adolescents who have half-siblings with a different father are more likely to have used drugs and had sex by age 15 than those who have only full siblings.
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, they examined a phenomenon known as “multi-partnered fertility” or MPF. This happens when parents who are not romantically involved with each other form new relationships and have another child with a new partner. This is one of the first studies to examine the effect of parental MPF on children over the long-term, and the only study that takes into account background factors and the number of changes in family structure the adolescent experienced.
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SOURCE: American Sociological Association, August 2013