This article reviews key developments in the past decade of research on divorce,
repartnering, and stepfamilies. Divorce rates are declining overall, but they remain high and …

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 …

This article argues that the trends normally linked with the second demographic transition
(SDT) may be reversed as the gender revolution enters its second half by including men …

When I started writing this book, I knew I'd need to read piles of research but failed to foresee
the enormity of the piles. Education isn't just a major industry; it inspires researchers' …

Two dominant theories within family research foresee a long‐term decline in marriage,
fertility, and partner stability. They also assume that this “less‐family” scenario will be …

This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and
Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in …

Although men tended to receive more education than women in the past, the gender gap in
education has reversed in recent decades in most Western and many non-Western …

Previous research has documented that children who do not live with both biological parents
fare somewhat worse on a variety of outcomes than those who do. In this article, which is the …

Life courses are studied in sociology and neighboring fields as developmental processes,
as culturally and normatively constructed life stages and age roles, as biographical …

This chapter discusses the concept of the second demographic transition (SDT) and its
relevance for explaining the ongoing changes in family and fertility patterns across Europe. It …