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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Is the American Family in Decline? | |
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| A Note on the Demographic Approach to Studying Families | |
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| Theoretical Frameworks in Family Demography | |
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| A Note on Data and Family Terminology | |
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| Choice of Topics and Organization of this Volume | |
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| Changing Families in a Changing Society | |
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| A Changing Society | |
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| Changing Households and Families | |
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| Racial Differences in Household and Family Structure | |
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| Delayed Marriage and Living Arrangements of Young Adults | |
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| Cohabitation | |
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| Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage | |
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| Childbearing | |
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| Living Arrangements of the Elderly | |
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| Intergenerational Ties and Multigenerational Living | |
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| Cohabitation | |
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| Who Cohabits and How Has This Changed Over Time? | |
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| A Note on Gay & Lesbian Cohabiting-Couple Households | |
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| Cohabitation and Marriage | |
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| Are Cohabiting and Married Individuals Becoming More Alike? | |
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| Cohabitation and Single Life | |
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| Different Purposes, Different Cohabitors | |
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| Race and the Meaning of Cohabitation | |
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| Premarital Cohabitation and Risk of Divorce | |
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| Childbearing | |
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| Entering Motherhood: Childbearing Among Cohorts of Women | |
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| Number of Children and Childlessness | |
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| Generational Differences in Childbearing | |
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| Nonmarital Childbearing | |
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| Employment Patterns Before and After Pregnancy | |
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| Birth Expectations | |
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| Fertility in Men's Lives | |
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| Single-Mother Families | |
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| Who Is a Single Mother? | |
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| Trends in Single Motherhood | |
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| Cohabitation and Single-Parenting | |
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| Cohort Change in Lifetime Experience of Single-Mothering | |
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| Changing Socioeconomic Characteristics of Single Mothers | |
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| Variation among Single Mothers | |
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| Single Mothers and Welfare Reform | |
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| Fathering | |
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| Beliefs about Father Involvement: Ideals & Realities | |
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| Declining Fatherhood: Long-Term Trends in Men's Coresidential "Parenting." | |
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| Lifetime Estimates of Parenthood | |
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| Father-Only Families & Cohabitation | |
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| Characteristics of Single and Married Fathers | |
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| Child Custody | |
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| Contact Between Nonresident Fathers & Their Children | |
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| Child Support Among Nonresident Fathers | |
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| Married Fathers' Time and Activities with Children | |
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| Fathers' and Mothers' Views on Father Involvement | |
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| Grandparenting | |
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| How Has Grandparenthood Changed Over the Years? | |
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| Grandparenting | |
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| Grandparenting and Single-Parenting | |
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| Multigenerational Families with Grandparents | |
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| Heterogeneity in Multigenerational Families with Grandparents | |
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| Characteristics of Grandparents in Multigenerational Families | |
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| The Economic Well-being of Grandparents in Multigenerational Families | |
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| Racial Differences in Multigenerational Families with Grandparents | |
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| The Economic Well-being of Grandchildren in Multigenerational Families | |
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| Child Care | |
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| Growth in Non-Parental Child Care | |
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| How Do Parents Choose Child Care? | |
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| Complexity of Child Care Arrangements | |
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| Child Care and Child Well-Being | |
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| Child Well-Being | |
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| Changing Numbers of U.S. Children | |
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| A Transformation of Family Life | |
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| Foster Children and Adopted Children | |
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| Children in Gay and Lesbian Families | |
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| Children's Economic Security | |
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| Parents & Children | |
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| How Do Children Spend Their Time? | |
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| Children's Health | |
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| Teens, Mortality, and Risky Behaviors | |
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| Economic Causes and Consequences of Changing Family Structure | |
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| Trends in Household & Per Capita Income | |
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| Poverty Trends | |
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| Racial Differences in Income & Poverty | |
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| "Feminization" of Poverty | |
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| Changing Employment & Earnings of Women | |
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| Declining Male Wages | |
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| The Juvenilization of Poverty | |
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| Family Income Inequality & Relative Economic Well-Being | |
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| Components of Rising Household Income Inequality | |
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| Changing Economics & Family Formation & Dissolution | |
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| Men's Income & Their Attractiveness in the Marriage Market | |
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| Women's Economic Independence, Marriage, & Marital Disruption | |
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| Consequences of Marital Disruption in Families with Children | |
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| The Gender Gap in Income After Marital Disruption | |
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| Combining Work and Family | |
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| The Increase in Mother's Labor Force Participation | |
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| Attitudes about Women's Work | |
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| Women's & Men's Nonmarket Work | |
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| When Do Men Do More Housework? | |
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| Perceived Success at Work-Family Balance | |
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| Dual Earning & Family Well-being | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |