This article reviews areas of advancement over the past decade in our understanding of
remarriage and stepfamilies and suggests promising new directions for future work …

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

Systematic comparisons of fertility developments based on education, gender and country
context are rare. Using harmonized register data, we compare cohort total fertility and …

In most parts of Europe, childlessness and non-marriage were common phenomena during
the course of the demographic transition (Rowland 2007), and contributed to the fertility …

In this paper, we estimate the effects of children and the differential effects of sons and
daughters on men's labor supply and hourly wage rates. The responses to fatherhood of two …

Both men and women are important actors in bringing children into life, yet demographic
studies on reproduction have tended to focus on women alone. The aims of this article are …

In this article data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) are used to analyse
gender differences in fertility intentions, and the correspondence between fertility intentions …

Cohabitation and childbearing outside of marriage are increasingly common family
arrangements in the United States. Cohabitation is becoming more like formal marriage in …

People's childbearing intentions change over the course of their reproductive lives. these
changes have been conceptualized as occurring in response to the realization that an …

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that nonmarital childbearing and marital
dissolution were undermining the progress of African Americans. The author argues that …