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 …

Depending on your perspective, demographers either have become quite aggressive in
enlarging the territory considered to be part of population studies or have become more …

This review examines and synthesizes recent research on pathways to parenthood. We
begin by providing basic information about patterns, differentials, and trends and discussing …

Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time,
certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second …

With the rise in out-of-wedlock childbearing and divorce in the last quarter of the twentieth
century, an increasing proportion of children have been exposed to a variety of new family …

The decade of the 1960s has emerged as a turning point of sorts in family studies, as a time
when at least some analysts began to penetrate the cloud of social myths, ideologies, and …

This article explores the relationship of historical research to contemporary family studies.
Family history was influenced greatly by fields such as sociology and anthropology, leading …

Society persists despite the mortality of its individual members, through processes of
demographic metabolism and particularly the annual infusion of birth cohorts. These may …

In this article, we reexamine the concept of generation as it has been used in the social and
behavioral sciences and its utility for present-day research on human development. This is …

Many fields of science) human and natural science) identify structure and process as
interdependent aspects of their subject matter. Process approaches are even dominant in …