Three Decades Since Kathy Edin's Making Ends Meet - two special issues from Russell Sage! @ffcws.bsky.social

Have you heard? FFCWS is enrolling kids (G3) of the original FF birth cohort (G2) in a new collab project called FFG3 to collect perinatal surveys & biological samples. Prelim findings show physical & mental health of G2 mothers is worse than that of the previous generation (G1) tinyurl.com/523s577b

#FFdata at #PAA2026: The FFCWS Data Team will be at our booth (105) in the Exhibit Hall for the last day of PAA from 8:00am-12:30pm. If you haven’t already, come by and get to know more about the study!

#FFdata at #PAA2026: The presentation “Timing-dependent associations between childhood internalizing symptoms and DNA methylation” by Tung et al will begin in 15 minutes. See more presentations using #FFdata on our website

#FFdata at #PAA2026: The presentation “Sleep Duration and Problems as Predictors of Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Youth” by Huntley et al will begin in 15 minutes. See more presentations using #FFdata on our website tinyurl.com/yvf24reb

#FFdata at #PAA2026: The presentation " Family Complexity Comes of Age: Family Patterns and Young Adults Outcomes in the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study" by Marcia Carlson and Emm Romell will begin in 15 minutes!

#FFdata at #PAA2026: The FFCWS Data Team will be at our booth (105) in the Exhibit Hall today from 8:00am-12:15pm and 1:30pm-4:30pm. Come chat with us and grab some swag!

#FFdata at #PAA2026: The poster presentation “Parental Bargaining Patterns and Children’s Health Trajectories in Mexican-American Families” by Sabrina Laverty and Ronald Mincy will begin in 15 minutes. See more presentations using #FFdata on our website tinyurl.com/yvf24reb

#FFdata at #PAA2026: The presentation “Linking Social Phenotypes and Biological Aging: A Life Course Analysis from Three Harmonized US Studies” by Jiang et al will begin in 15 minutes. See more presentations using #FFdata on our website tinyurl.com/yvf24reb

#FFdata at #PAA2026: The presentation “Introducing the Future of Families Third Generation (FFG3) Study” by Julien Teitler, Kathryn Neckerman, Ryan Fuenmayor, Ana Gonzalez, and Nancy Reichman will begin in 15 minutes. See more presentations using #FFdata on our website tinyurl.com/yvf24reb

#FFdata at #PAA2026: The presentation “Interparental Relationship Quality and Children’s Mental Health Trajectories” by Tia Dickerson and Julien Teitler will begin in 20 minutes. See more presentations using #FFdata on our website tinyurl.com/yvf24reb

#FFdata at #PAA2026: The FFCWS Data Team will be at our booth (105) in the Exhibit Hall today from 8:00am-12:15pm and 1:30pm-6:00pm. Ask us your burning questions and grab some swag!

#FFdata at #PAA2026: Come see us at our booth (105) tonight from 6pm to 9pm in the Exhibit Hall as we kick off the start of this year’s PAA conference! 🎊

#FFdata at #PAA2026: The FFCWS Data Support Team will have a booth (105) in the Exhibit Hall tomorrow from 6pm-9pm. Stop by and say hello, ask your questions, and grab some swag!

📣 We’re hiring! Join the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study as a Research Specialist to support data management, programming, and the Year 27 wave. Based in Princeton, NJ (hybrid). Learn more & apply: tinyurl.com/3kzt77vx

#FFdata at #PAA2026: Tomorrow (9am) at America’s Center Convention Complex the FFCWS Data Support Team will host a workshop, " Introduction to the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study Dataset". Don’t miss it!

We're excited to see you all this year! Don't forget to stop by :)

Make sure to visit booth #105 at #PAA2026 to learn more about the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study @ffcws.bsky.social buff.ly/HlyTQqa

🚨Publication alert!🚨 Researchers using @ffcws.bsky.social data found that elevated attention problem scores in childhood were associated with higher risk of cigarette smoking and delinquent behaviors in adolescence. Read more about their findings: tinyurl.com/2et9te7u

Join us at our PAA conference workshop, "Introduction to the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study Dataset". 📅 Wednesday, May 6th📍 America’s Center - St. Louis, MO Sign up during registration! Don’t miss it! #PAA2026

Are you attending #PAA2026 next week? See our presentation schedule for papers using #FFdata and opportunities to connect with the data team as well as more information on the workshop we are hosting! tinyurl.com/yvf24reb

🚨Publications alert! 🚨 A new study using @ffcws.bsky.social data found perceived discrimination was positively associated with depressive symptoms, which were in turn associated with greater odds of ever vaping. See more results: tinyurl.com/596bj92y

🚨 Data alert! 🚨 The FF Challenge data is now publicly available on ICPSR! Access the data here: tinyurl.com/5n88ufa8 📊🔍 #DataUpdate

How are food insecurity and smoking related? Researchers using @ffcws.bsky.social data found bidirectional relationships between food insecurity and smoking may be explained by poverty and mental health, warranting consideration of contextual factors tinyurl.com/2fpuh5jm #FFpubs

Check out another brief on the Y22 data from our colleagues at Columbia's CPSP: Economic impact payments (stimulus checks) during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced food & utility hardship among young adults with low incomes who were not residing with family tinyurl.com/2s4j79en #FFpubs

Research brief alert! 🚨Our colleagues at Columbia's Center for Poverty and Social Policy found two-thirds of young adults (65%) receive assistance from family members and one-third (34%) receive public programs; some receive both. Read more findings: tinyurl.com/5acxbhkw #FFpubs

Check out another Y22 brief from Tia Dickerson, Hye-Min Jung, and Jane Waldfogel: The links between parents’ educational attainment and young adults’ educational attainment are stronger for young men than young women. Read more: tinyurl.com/3yykw2j6

Check out a new Y22 brief from Columbia Population Research Center & Columbia School of Social Work's Tia Dickerson, Hye-Min Jung, and Jane @Waldfogel! Findings suggest it should be possible to identify children at risk of young adult disconnection earlier in childhood tinyurl.com/4rcm6dh6

Publication alert! 🚨New study using @ffcws.bsky.social data found greater exposure to threat ACEs was associated with higher internalizing & externalizing symptoms, whereas deprivation ACEs were only significantly associated with higher internalizing symptoms tinyurl.com/4xuz733c #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨 A new study from Lawrence Berger, Tia Dickerson, Andrew Gelman, Hye-Min Jung, Seonghun Lee, Margaret Thomas, and Jane Waldfogel found CPS involvement may be associated with a higher likelihood of disconnection in young adulthood tinyurl.com/4tmsz9xz #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨 A new study using @ffcws.bsky.social data found delinquency and police interactions were positively associated with suicide attempts among both Black women and Black men tinyurl.com/yf4xbwua #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨A new study using @ffcws.bsky.social data found higher relationship quality was associated with lower tobacco use, with parental monitoring emerging as a partial indirect pathway tinyurl.com/38y8d85f #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨Research using @ffcws.bsky.social data found that Black boys were school policed & disciplined more & had higher depressive symptoms than White boys tinyurl.com/46puxb2s #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨Researchers using @ffcws.bsky.social data found a lack of social ties with one's neighbors is associated with higher odds of SNAP receipt in high-poverty areas tinyurl.com/czxks7r4 #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨A new study using @ffcws.bsky.social data found cash assistance programs in the United States may provide inadequate funds to benefit the relational wellbeing of families with low incomes tinyurl.com/yw6dmmzf #FFpubs

Publication alert! Researchers using @ffcws.bsky.social data found that parenting stress was associated with both child physical assault and psychological aggression among foreign-born Hispanic families tinyurl.com/3kzkn948 #FFpubs

Publication alert! A new study using @ffcws.bsky.social data found that among Latine families, closer parent–child relationships may buffer against the impact of maternal IPV exposure on adolescent internalizing behaviors tinyurl.com/3fwrdpu5 #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨 Research using @ffcws.bsky.social data found depression rates were consistently elevated for mothers with intellectual disabilities & borderline intellectual functioning & rates were particularly high when the focal child was age 3 tinyurl.com/2jxrest7#FFp...

Publication alert! 🚨 Researchers using #FFdata found adolescents who were exposed to IPV in childhood reported worse internalizing symptoms than those having low exposure to IPV over time. Read more: tinyurl.com/ycyk5hk9 #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨A new study using @FFCWS data investigated the associations between home & classroom environments at age 3, academic outcomes at age 9, & the mediating role of attention regulation & language skills around school entry. Read more: tinyurl.com/bzkw5dyk

Publication alert! 🚨 Researchers using @FFCWS data found positive parenting reduced the pace of epigenetic aging in contexts of low, but not high, community threat. Learn more about the results: tinyurl.com/333ts7tx #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨A new study using @FFCWS data found CPS involvement is associated with an increase in anxiety and depression in the overall sample and in depression for Black and Hispanic/Latino young adults. Learn more: tinyurl.com/yc8zstz9 #FFPubs

🚨Publication alert! 🚨Recently published research findings using #FFdata suggest severe housing insecurity in early childhood, even with relative improvement over time, threaten long-term mental health #FFpubs tinyurl.com/4zx9em36

🚨Publication alert! 🚨 A new study using #FFdata found school absences due to skipping were more strongly and negatively associated with educational outcomes compared with health-related absences #FFpubs tinyurl.com/4td4ndu7

📣 Big news! We’re officially kicking off Year 27 fieldwork! Throughout 2026, we’ll be surveying our focal children—now young adults—about their transitions to adulthood, including education, work, housing, health, family formation, and more. Stay tuned!

Fellowship opportunity for researchers and practitioners in the fields of population sciences and/or population health!

#FFdata at #SSWR2026: The poster presentation “What Does a Village Do for Youth? Neighborhood Collective Efficacy and Later Housing Outcomes in Emerging Adulthood” will begin in 10 minutes. Learn more: tinyurl.com/nhh84nu4

#FFdata at #SSWR2026: The poster presentation “The Impact of Childhood Eviction on Depression in Early Adulthood” with Yohan Moon will begin in 15 minutes. Learn more: tinyurl.com/nhh84nu4

#FFdata at #SSWR2026: Two poster presentations using #FFdata will begin in 15 minutes. Learn more: tinyurl.com/nhh84nu4

#FFdata at #SSWR2026: The presentation “Structural Adversity and Justice System Persistence: The Role of Early Detention, Delinquency, and Family-level Risk Factors” with Zixiaojie Yang will begin in 15 minutes. Learn more: tinyurl.com/nhh84nu4