This article reviews key developments in the past decade of research on divorce,
repartnering, and stepfamilies. Divorce rates are declining overall, but they remain high and …

This article reviews recent advances in causal inference relevant to sociology. We focus on
a selective subset of contributions aligning with four broad topics: causal effect identification …

Disruptive events such as economic recessions, natural disasters, job loss, and divorce are
highly prevalent among American families. These events can have a long-lasting impact …

Divorce has been conceptualized as a process. Research has extensively demonstrated
that it is pre/postdivorce family environment factors that primarily account for the variability in …

Disruptive events have significant consequences for the individuals and families who
experience them, but these effects do not occur equally across the population. While some …

During the past decade, scholars continued to focus on how larger economic trends
impacted families across the income spectrum. From income and wealth inequality to …

Mechanisms explaining the negative effects of parental divorce on children's attainment
have long been conjectured and assessed. Yet few studies of parental divorce have …

Individuals do not respond uniformly to treatments, such as events or interventions.
Sociologists routinely partition samples into subgroups to explore how the effects of …

The college-educated are more likely to vote than are those with less education. Prior
research suggests that the effect of college attendance on voting operates directly, by …

Adverse childhood experiences'(ACEs) negative consequences on health, education, and
life opportunities are often explained through the neurodevelopmental changes in a …