Shockey’s current work seeks to extend his prior work on family structure to understand the relationshibetween expenditures on children, parental behavior and lifestyle characteristics, and ultimately examine differences in child costs by families of varying compositions. An important component will be an exploration of gene-environment interactions and their impact on individual and family resilience, with the potential to inform strategies to reduce social outcomes such as school performance, health, obesity, substance abuse, and delinquency. He is also developing a growing interest in “cyber sociology,” including social aspects of differential access, use and security in the cyber world including cyber security, the exploding growth of the “internet of things”)