Sj. South et al., Children's residential mobility and neighborhood environment following parental divorce and remarriage, SOCIAL FORC, 77(2), 1998, pp. 667-693
Longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics show that parenta
l divorce sharply increases the annual probability that children will move
out of their. neighborhoods. Conditional upon moving, children: of divorce
move to significantly poorer neighborhoods than do children in stable, two-
parent families, a difference attributable to the negative impact of parent
al divorce on children's family income The impact of divorce divorce on the
se mobility outcomes is especially pronounced for African American children
and for children whose parents owned their homes prior to divorcing Parent
al remarriage is associated with higher mobility rates, but this difference
is attributable to preexisting differences between parents who remarry and
those who do not. Mobile children whose parents remarry move to slightly w
ealthier neighborhoods than mobile children whose parents remain unmarried.