Previous research has documented that children who do not live with both biological parents
fare somewhat worse on a variety of outcomes than those who do. In this article, which is the …

This article reexamines the thesis that marriage is becoming deinstitutionalized. It first
reviews relevant theoretical literature on social institutions, including the “new …

The last half a century has witnessed swift changes in patterns of family formation and family
dissolution in developed countries, followed by increased attention to these changes and to …

This study analyses the effect of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 on the future of
Ukraine's population. We conduct a series of population projections with different …

In this study, we provide demographic insight into the still relatively new family form of same-
sex marriage. We focus on period trends in same-sex marriage formation and divorce during …

The twenty-first century has seen major changes in both the nature of work and the nature of
families in the United States—even before the COVID-19 pandemic upended nearly every …

Increases in cohabitation, nonmarital childbearing, and partnership dissolution have
reshaped the family landscape in most Western countries. The United States shares many …

BACKGROUND Despite widespread attention paid to the negative correlation between
female education and divorce, we lack an explanation for it. In this study we use social …

Educational differences in family structure have received increasing attention in family
demographic research ever since McLanahan (2004) coined the term 'diverging destinies' to …

BACKGROUND While a striking rise in shared physical custody after divorce has been
observed in Wisconsin and some European countries, the same trend in shared custody has …