Scholars have long looked to family composition to understand child well-being. The study
of family instability, or the experience of repeated changes in parents' union status during …

In recent decades, sociological studies of black males and of black masculinity in America
unfolded with great rapidity. In the 1960s, sociological studies of black males gained …

Although a focus on marriage and the nuclear family characterizes much sociological
research and social commentary, this article suggests that this focus ignores the familial …

We used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N= 7,686) to
determine whether racial and ethnic differences in socioeconomic stress and social …

Objective This study examined the correlates of involvement in extended family social
support networks among African Americans. Background Previous literature has …

Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives shows how the current emphasis on the
nuclear family–with its exclusion of the extended family–is narrow, even deleterious, and …

We examine the association between perceptions of spouse's work-to-family conflict, family
stressors, and mental health outcomes using data from a sample of 1,348 dual-earning …

Non‐White young adults are more likely to live with their parents throughout their 20s, more
likely to return home after going away to college, and less likely to leave again after …

Some work/family scholars assume that gender differences in career centrality (ie the
importance of career to one's identity) are a result of differential job characteristics and family …

For decades, social scientists have assumed that “fictive kinship” is a phenomenon
associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this …