Social class and changing families in an unequal America / edited by Marcia J. Carlson and Paula England.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Description
1 online resource (249 p.)

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Series
Studies in social inequality. [More in this series]
Summary note
American families are far more diverse and complex today than they were 50 years ago. As ideas about marriage, divorce, and remarriage have changed, so too have our understandings about cohabitation, childbearing, parenting, and the transition to adulthood. Americans of all socioeconomic backgrounds have witnessed changes in the nature of family life, but as this book reveals, these changes play out in very different ways for the wealthy or well off than they do for the poor. Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of t
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Contributors; Introduction: Social Class and Family Patterns in the United States - Marcia J. Carlson and Paula England; Chapter One: Birth Control Use and Early, Unintended Births: Evidence for a Class Gradient - Paula England, Elizabeth Aura McClintock,and Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer; Chapter Two: Thinking about Demographic Family Difference: Fertility Differentials in an Unequal Society - S. Philip Morgan; Chapter Three: Between Poor and Prosperous: Do the Family Patterns of Moderately Educated Americans Deserve a Closer Look? - Andrew J. Cherlin
  • Chapter Four: Daddy, Baby Momma, Maybe: Low-Income Urban Fathers and the "Package Deal" of Family Life - Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, and Joanna Miranda Reed; Chapter Five: Family Instability and Complexity after a Nonmarital Birth: Outcomes for Children in Fragile Families - Sara McLanahan; Chapter Six: Social Class and the Transition to Adulthood: Differences in Parents' Interactions with Institutions - Annette Lareau and Amanda Cox; Chapter Seven: Family Change, Public Response: Social Policy in an Era of Complex Families - Timothy M. Smeeding and Marcia J. Carlson
  • Chapter Eight: The Recent Transformation of the American Family: Witnessing and Exploring Social Change - Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.Index
ISBN
0-8047-7908-2
OCLC
  • 739713724
  • 1198931633
Doi
  • 10.1515/9780804779081
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