The sexual and romantic activities of unmarried women at midlife are often invisible in
survey research based on normative categories of adult intimacy. However, women at this …

Abstract In the United States, post-secondary educational outcomes are stratified by gender,
with women attending college and completing their degrees at higher rates. At the same …

Rural America is often depicted as a distressed and left‐behind place, with limited
opportunities for the children growing up there. This paper addresses this topic by …

This article is the first to explore variations in alcohol, drug overdose, and suicide deaths in
the United States by marital status before and after the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic …

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study spanning four decades of historical time
(ie, birth cohorts ranging from 1921–1964), we documented heterogeneity in relationship …

Marriage is a key adult milestone yet is also considered a greedy institution that
monopolizes resources, jeopardizing adult children's financial transfers to aging parents. As …

Factors leading to racial and ethnic differences in non-marital fertility, which account for
nearly 41% of all births in the US, are not well understood. This study examines how mother …

In recent decades, there have been large changes in family formation in the US The
marriage rate has decreased concomitantly with increasing premarital cohabitation and …