In the past three decades, incarceration has become an increasingly powerful force for
reproducing and reinforcing social inequalities. A new wave of sociological research details …

Cohabitation has risen dramatically in the United States in a very short time. So, too, has the
amount of sociological research devoted to the topic. In the span of a bit more than a …

" This is the most important study ever written on motherhood and marriage among low-
income urban women. Edin and Kefalas's timely, engaging, and well-written book is a …

This article analyzes data derived from the first detailed long-term follow-up of a sample of
serious adolescent female delinquents and similarly situated males. Neither marital …

Most observers agree that marriage in America has been changing. Some think it is in
decline, that the growth of individualism has made it increasingly difficult to achieve …

Cohabitation is now the modal path to marriage in the United States. Drawing on data from
115 in‐depth interviews with cohabitors from the working and lower middle classes, this …

Continuity and Change in the American Family engages students with issues they see every
day in the news, providing them with a comprehensive description of the social demography …

Using recently released cohabitation data for the male sample of the National Longitudinal
Survey of Youth, first interviewed in 1979, I conducted multinomial discrete-time event …

Marital status is a key determinant of psychological well-being. I use data from both waves of
the National Survey of Families and Households to evaluate the effect of union type (ie …

Are economic resources related to relationship quality among young couples, and to what
extent does this vary by relationship type? To answer these questions, we estimated …