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 …

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 …

Scholars argue that gender culture, understood as a set of beliefs, norms, and social
expectations defining masculinities and femininities, plays an important role in shaping …

Increases in life expectancy, high rates of movement into and out of couple relationships,
and increasing exposure to stepfamilies raise new questions about who is in a family, the …

Whether, and under what circumstances, people become parents has implications for
individual identity, family relationships, the well‐being of adults and children, and population …

Abstract Mothers in the United States use a combination of employment, public transfers,
and private safety nets to cushion the economic losses of romantic union dissolution, but …

Delayed parenthood is a central feature of the massive transformation of family and
reproduction in rich countries. We analyse the shift of motherhood towards later reproductive …

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

Economic instability has increased in recent decades and is higher for families with low
incomes and Black families. Such instability is thought to be driven primarily by precarious …