Marital satisfaction is one of the common concepts used for assessing happiness and
stability in a marriage. It is a multidimensional concept that is affected by several factors. The …

Economic insecurity describes the risk of economic loss faced by workers and households
as they encounter the unpredictable events of social life. Our review suggests a four-part …

Mothering While Black examines the complex lives of the African American middle class—in
particular, black mothers and the strategies they use to raise their children to maintain class …

A growing literature documents the importance of family instability for child wellbeing. In this
article, we use longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to …

In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so
dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen …

This paper examines households' financial fragility by looking at their capacity to come up
with $2,000 in 30 days. Using data from the 2009 TNS Global Economic Crisis survey, we …

Sociologists long have observed that the urban poor rely on kinship networks to survive
economic destitution. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among evicted tenants in high …

Plenitude: the new Page 1 Plenitude: the new economics of true wealth Setting the Course:
Paths to Sustainable Ways of Life January 2011 Juliet Schor Boston College and the Center for …

This study explores how faculty at one research‐intensive university spend their time on
research, teaching, mentoring, and service, as well as housework, childcare, care for elders …

Popular media describe adverse effects of helicopter parents who provide intense support to
grown children, but few studies have examined implications of such intense support. Grown …