This article reviews key developments in the past decade of research on divorce,
repartnering, and stepfamilies. Divorce rates are declining overall, but they remain high and …

The authors review demographic trends and research on families in the United States, with a
special focus on the past decade. They consider the following several topics:(a) marriage …

The book that Sparked a National Conversation Boys and men are struggling. Profound
economic and social changes of recent decades have many losing ground in the classroom …

A growing literature documents the importance of family instability for child wellbeing. In this
article, we use longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

Scholars have long looked to family composition to understand child well-being. The study
of family instability, or the experience of repeated changes in parents' union status during …

The declining prevalence of two-parent families helped increase income inequality over
recent decades. Does family structure also condition how economic (dis) advantages pass …

There is a long-standing debate on whether extensive Nordic family policies have the
intended equalizing effect on family and gender differences in economic outcomes. This …

This chapter explores what it means to be a single parent in the United States. It describes
the changing incidence of single parenthood over the last half century, and the many types …

A vast amount of literature has documented negative associations between family instability
and child development, with the largest associations being in the socioemotional …