Nonmarital cohabitation and marriage are now fundamentally linked, a fact that is routinely
reflected in current research on union formation. Unprecedented changes in the timing …

During the past decade, scholars continued to focus on how larger economic trends
impacted families across the income spectrum. From income and wealth inequality to …

The birth of a child is a critical and potentially stressful experience for women, entailing
several changes both at the individual and interpersonal level. This event can lead to …

Objective: We aim to investigate how the perceived consequences of COVID-19 affect
people's childbearing intentions in Poland. Background: With the pandemic having an …

Using data from the first Census data set that includes complete measures of male biological
fertility for a large-scale probability sample of the US population (the 2014 wave of the Study …

Abstract This study compared Israeli, Portuguese, and British childless lesbian, gay,
bisexual (LGB) and heterosexual adults on parenthood aspirations as indicated by their …

Objective This study examines the schemas that women employed during the COVID‐19
pandemic to make sense of their reproductive desires. Background Existing research on …

For new mothers, coping with infant distress is challenging. Mothers' self-efficacy in emotion-
related parenting plays critical roles in shaping their adaptation and children's development …

Research on parental involvement has traditionally focused on social class differences in
parenting behavior throughout early childhood and K‐12 schooling. Yet there is mounting …

The uneven recovery of the post-Great Recession years has been accompanied by
changing family behaviors throughout the US For teens, whose family building years are …