Sandra L. Hofferth

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Sandra L. Hofferth is a Professor in the Department of Family Science at the University of Maryland School of Public Health in the United States, and is Director of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. She is the former co-director of the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics and founding Director of its Child Development Supplement. Her research focuses on American children's use of time; poverty, food insecurity, public assistance, and child health and development; and fathers and fathering. Hofferth is the author of more than 100 articles and five books. She studies employment and parenting among women and most recently has extended this interest to men. Her current research focuses on the transition of young men to adulthood, and particularly disadvantaged young men. Her papers have examined the link between the timing of childbirth and relationship outcomes for young men, factors influencing the transition of young men into residential and nonresidential fatherhood, the consequences of children for young men's relationships, and how young men's and their partner's employment experiences affect their relationships with children. Provided by Wikipedia