Research Catalog

Title

The Changing American family : sociological and demographic perspectives / edited by Scott J. South and Stewart E. Tolnay.

Publication

Boulder : Westview Press, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• South, Scott J.
• Tolnay, Stewart Emory.
• State University of New York at Albany. Department of Sociology.

Description

vii, 304 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

In this book, leading authorities on the family show how families, parents, and children have been affected by changing patterns of marriage and cohabitation. Taking a long historical perspective, some authors consider trends such as the decline of multigenerational families and group differences in the relationships between economic opportunity and the timing of marriage. But the focus is predominantly on questions of current interest: patterns of union formation, differences between marriage and cohabitation, contact between divorced fathers and their children, the division of household labor, and the transmission of attitudes and behavior across generations. Intended for scholars and advanced students, this book offers essential analysis of the changing dimensions of the American family.

Subject

• Family demography > United States > Congresses
• Families > United States > Congresses
• Families
• Family demography
• Bevölkerungsentwicklung
• Familie
• Sozialer Wandel
• Gezin
• Sociale verandering
• Demografische aspecten
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Papers from a conference held in Albany, N.Y., April 6-7, 1990 sponsored by the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Current themes in the social demography of the American family / Stewart E. Tolnay and Scott J. South -- Family patterns : the historical dimension. Race and multigenerational family structure, 1900-1980 / Steven Ruggles and Ron Goeken -- Group differences in economic opportunity and the timing of marriage : blacks and whites in the rural South, 1910 / Nancy S. Landale and Stewart E. Tolnay -- The impact of the Civil War on American widowhood / Amy E. Holmes and Maris A. Vinovskis -- Marriage and cohabitation : current issues. American marriage patterns in transition / Neil G. Bennett, David E. Bloom, and Patricia H. Craig -- A further look at first unions and first marriages / Robert Schoen and Dawn Owens -- Cohabitation : precursor to marriage or an alternative to being single? / Ronald R. Rindfuss and Audrey VandenHeuvel -- Young adults' views of marriage, cohabitation, and family / James A. Sweet and Larry L. Bumpass.
• (cont.) For love or money? Sociodemographic determinants of the expected benefits from marriage / Scott J. South -- Families, parents, and children. The disappearing American father? Divorce and the waning significance of biological parenthood / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Kathleen Mullan Harris -- Intergenerational resource transfers across disrupted households : absent fathers' contributions to the well-being of their children / Jay D. Teachman -- The influence of the parental family on the attitudes and behavior of children / Arland Thornton -- Work in the home : the productive context of family relationships / Linda Waite and Frances K. Goldscheider.

ISBN

• 0813311004
• 9780813311005

LCCN

91039295

OCLC

• ocm24872376
• 24872376
• SCSB-1946781

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library