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 …

The ways that couples form and manage their intimate relationships at higher and lower
levels of socioeconomic status (SES) have been diverging steadily over the past several …

Summary The United States shows striking racial and ethnic differences in marriage
patterns. Compared to both white and Hispanic women, black women marry later in life, are …

This article argues that marriage has undergone a process of deinstitutionalization—a
weakening of the social norms that define partners' behavior—over the past few decades …

The transition to adulthood has become a thriving area of research in life course studies.
This review is organized around two of the field's emerging themes. The first theme is the …

By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has
become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up …

The author critically assesses the theoretical and empirical bases of the popular view that
marriage is a declining institution in the United States and that this decline is an inevitable …

This chapter critically examines the hypothesis that women's rising employment levels have
increased their economic independence and hence have greatly reduced the desirability of …

Has the relationship between economic prospects and marriage formation in the United
States changed in recent decades? To answer this question, a discrete-time event-history …

Cohabitation has risen dramatically in the United States in a very short time. So, too, has the
amount of sociological research devoted to the topic. In the span of a bit more than a …