The relationship between parenthood and well-being has become a hot topic among
scholars, media, and general public alike. The research, however, has been mixed—some …

Résumé Cet article présente un aperçu des recherches dans le domaine de la fécondité
réalisées dans les sociétés dites avancées, c'est-à-dire les sociétés dans lesquelles le …

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing
world? We compare American metropolitan areas with analogous geographic units in Brazil …

The recent proliferation of studies examining cross-national variation in the association
between parenthood and happiness reveal accumulating evidence of lower levels of …

The shift to more time-intensive and child-centered parenting in the United States is widely
assumed to be positively linked to healthy child development, but implications for adult well …

The primary objectives of this article are (a) to put forth an explicit operational formulation of
positive human health that goes beyond prevailing" absence of illness" criteria;(b) to clarify …

This article reviews recent research (1999–2009) on the effects of parenthood on well‐
being. We use a life course framework to consider how parenting and childlessness …

The development of a measure of parental stress, the Parental Stress Scale, is presented.
All participants (total N= 1276) completed the Parental Stress Scale and some also …

A core interest of social science is the study of stratification--inequalities in income, power,
and prestige. Few persons would care about such inequalities if the poor, powerless, and …

Recent scholarly and media accounts paint a portrait of unhappy parents who find
remarkably little joy in taking care of their children, but the scientific basis for these claims …