The authors review demographic trends and research on families in the United States, with a
special focus on the past decade. They consider the following several topics:(a) marriage …

Family ties have wide‐ranging consequences for health, for better and for worse. This
decade review uses a life course perspective to frame significant advances in research on …

The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) was developed in the
1990s in response to a mandate from the United States Congress to fund a study of …

Increases in life expectancy, high rates of movement into and out of couple relationships,
and increasing exposure to stepfamilies raise new questions about who is in a family, the …

Background and aim Lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic has forced a decrease in
physical activity (PA), an increase in sedentary behavior (SB) and a possibly worsening of …

Extensive research across fields has repeatedly confirmed that early-life adversity (ELA) is a
major selective force for many taxa, in part via its ties to adult health and longevity. 1, 2, 3 …

Self-care behaviors are fundamental for a healthy lifestyle. These behaviors can lead to
improved physical and psychological health, which can in turn lead to individual and social …

Economic instability has increased in recent decades and is higher for families with low
incomes and Black families. Such instability is thought to be driven primarily by precarious …

The aim was to examine the mental and physical health trajectories of mothers, fathers, and
children before and after union dissolution. Register data covering the entire Norwegian …

Girls who experience father absence in childhood also experience accelerated reproductive
development in comparison with peers with present fathers. One hypothesis advanced to …