An enormous amount of research on the transition to adulthood in America is founded on
early landmark studies that include Elmtown's Youth by August B. Hollingshead (1961), The …

The quality of marital relationships continues to be the most widely studied topic in the field.
Trends during the 1970s in research on marital quality and related concepts (happiness …

Family Theories: An Introduction by James M. White, Todd F. Martin, and new co-author Kari
Adamsons provides an incisive, thorough primer to current theories of the family that …

Recent studies suggest that parenthood may have negative consequences for the
psychological well-being of adults. Adults with children at home report that they are less …

Three research questions regarding family life-cycle categories were explored:(a) the power
of family life-cycle categories to predict marital quality,(b) the nature of the trend (curve) of …

We analyze changes in intimate ties in personal community networks. Our data come from
interviews conducted a decade apart with 33 Torontonians. There is much turnover in these …

We report on a 40-year study of 169 college men and their wives. We examined marital
satisfaction prospectively and retrospectively. When examined retrospectively, marital …

Using detailed time diaries of a 1981 national sample of 226 married couples with children,
we analyze the extent of the trade-off between their time commitments to work and time with …

Family development theory has many things in common with other theoretical traditions
discussed in this volume. Indeed, theorists working in the area have consciously “borrowed” …

The developmental perspective on the family has placed the nuclear family, as a group, with
its regular patterns of expansion, transition, and contraction, in the forefront for research …