| Variant title |
Continuity and change in the American family |
| Partial contents |
Is the American family in decline? A note on the demographic approach to studying families. Theoretical frameworks in family demography. A note on data and family terminology. Choice of topics and organization of this volume -- Changing families in a changing society. A changing society. Changing households and families. Racial differences in household and family structure. Delayed marriage and living arrangements of young adults. Cohabitation. Marriage, divorce, and remarriage. Childbearing. Living arrangements of the elderly. Intergenerational ties and multigenerational living. Conclusion -- Cohabitation. Who cohabits and how has this changed over time? A note on gay and lesbian cohabiting households. Cohabitation and marriage. Are cohabiting and married individuals becoming more alike? Cohabitation and single life. Different purposes, different cohabitors. Race and the meaning of cohabitation. Premarital cohabitation and risk of divorce. Conclusion -- Childbearing / by Martin O'Connell. Entering motherhood : childbearing among cohorts of women. Number of children and childlessness. Generational differences in childbearing. Nonmarital childbearing. Employment patterns before and after pregnancy. Birth expectations. Fertility in men's lives. Conclusion -- Single-mother families. Who is a single mother? Trends in single motherhood. Cohabitation and single-parenting. Cohort change in lifetime experience of single-mothering. Changing socioeconomic characteristics of single mothers. Variation among single mothers. Single mothers and welfare reform. Conclusion -- Fathering. Beliefs about father involvement : ideals and realities. Declining fatherhood : long-term trends in men's coresidential parenting. Lifetime estimates of parenthood. Father-only families and cohabitation. Characteristics of single and married fathers. Child custody. Contact between nonresident fathers and their children. Child support among nonresident fathers. Married fathers' time and activities with children. Fathers' and mothers' views on father involvement. Conclusion -- Grandparenting. How has grandparenthood changed over the years? Grandparenting. Grandparents and single-parenting. Multigenerational families with grandparents. Heterogeneity in multigenerational families with grandparents. Characteristics of grandparents in multigenerational families. Economic well-being of grandparents in multigenerational families. Racial differences in multigenerational families with grandparents. Economic well-being of grandchildren in multigenerational families. Conclusion -- Child care. Growth in non-parental child care. How do parents choose child care? Complexity of child-care arrangements. Child care and child well-being. Conclusion -- Child well-being. Changing numbers of U.S. children. A transformation of family life. Foster children and adopted children. Children in gay and lesbian families. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-350) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001003377 |
| ISBN | 0761920080 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0761920099 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
