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 …

Family formation in the United States has changed dramatically: marriage has become less
common, nonmarital cohabitation has become more common, and racial and economic …

ABSTRACT STUDY QUESTION How has the mean paternal age in the USA changed over
the past 4 decades? SUMMARY ANSWER The age at which men are fathering children in …

This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and
theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting …

Helicopter parents—the kind that continue to hover even in college—are one of the most
ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults …

Marriage has significantly changed since Becker proposed his specialization model yet
some scholars maintain that specialization characterizes modern couples. Specialization …

This article offers a socio-historical view of how families make a living and contribute to
business formation. We review the history of family changes that occurred over the last …

Online dating has become a widespread feature of modern social life. In less than two
decades, seeking partners through commercial intermediaries went from being a marginal …

Using data from the nationally representative 2010 Married and Cohabiting Couples Survey
of different-sex cohabiting and married couples, we compared the relationship quality of …

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 …