Susan D. Stewart

Dr. Susan Stewart is a family sociologist and demographer in the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University. Dr. Stewart’s work involves analyzing national family surveys and documenting U.S. family patterns, family diversity, and family change. Her research on fertility, parenting, relationship dynamics, and child and adult well-being in non-traditional family forms, including stepfamilies, has appeared in Journal of Marriage and Family, Demography, Journal of Family Issues, Population Research and Policy Review, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Family Planning Perspectives, and Social Biology. Dr. Stewart has extensive personal experience with stepfamily living; She has been part of a cohabiting stepfamily, a multi-household stepfamily, and is an adult stepchild.