Search Results for Family change

... family members are expected to meet the long-term obligations that define kinship. These questions are important because families have traditionally served as a vital private safety net for family members. Demographic changes increase family members’ uncertainty about their relationships. Family ties...

..., and the conclusions of generations of social scientists created a package of ideas—developmental idealism—that subsequently became a powerful influence for family change in many parts of the world during the past two centuries. This developmental idealism has been a substantial force for changing living arrangements...

...Ariane Ophir; Diederik Boertien; Sergi Vidal Abstract Narratives of demographic shifts overlook how societal changes shape the family trajectories of sexual minorities. Using sequence analysis, we describe how partnering and parenthood evolve over the life course of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB...

... , A. , & Johnson , D. ( 1988 ). Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Success . Journal of Family Issues , 9 , 255 – 272 . 10.1177/019251388009002007 Bourgeois-Pichat , J. ( 1981 ). Demographic Change in Western Europe . Population and Development Review , 7 ( 1 ), 19 – 42 . 10.2307/1972762...

...Paula Fomby; David S. Johnson Abstract We document changes in U.S. children's family household composition from 1968 to 2017 with regard to the number and types of kin that children lived with and the frequency of family members' household entrances and departures. Data are from the U.S. Panel...

... ) and fertility fell ( Morgan 1996 ), family size ideals also changed. Between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, the ideal family size fell to an average of roughly 2.5 children ( Blake 1974 ) and remained stable through the early 2000s ( Bongaarts 2002 ; David and Sanderson 1987 ; Hagewen and Morgan 2005...

... and higher-order birth and union events by woman’s birth cohort and country. The estimated parameters are used to generate country- and cohort-specific populations of women with stochastically predicted family life courses. We use the hypothetical populations to decompose changes in the percentage of mothers...

...Arland Thornton; Ming-Cheng Chang; Te-Hsiung Sun Abstract This paper examines the influence of social change and economic growth on intergenerational relationships and the formation of families in Taiwan. Using data from two island-wide surveys in 1973 and 1980, the analysis shows that, as expected...

...Nan E. Johnson; C. Shannon Stokes Abstract Studies of family size in successive generations have found a small but persistently positive effect of size of family of orientation. Recent work has suggested that this relationship may be influenced by birth order, intergenerational change in lifestyle...

... on changes of family income distribution between 1970 and 1990, across 784 metropolitan areas and public use microdata areas (PUMAs). Changes in both industrial structure and population characteristics are found to have significant and opposite effects on family income distribution, although there are sharp...

....160.3830.848 RECENT FERTILITY CHANGE IN CEYLON AND PROSPECTS FOR THE NATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAM* NICHOLAS H. WRIGHTt The provisional crude birth rate for Ceylon in 1967 was recently reported as 31.6. This is the lowest birth rate ever recorded for Ceylon and continues an apparent trend...

... . 24 Freedman , R. , Whelpton , P. K. , & Campbell , A. A. ( 1959 ). Family Planning, Sterility, and Population Growth . New York : McGraw-Hill . STABILITY AND CHANGE IN EXPECTATIONS ABOUT FAMILY SIZE: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY* RONALD FREEDMAN, LOLAGENE C. COOMBS, AND LARRY...

...Huijing Wu; Rachel Margolis; Ashton Verdery; Sarah E. Patterson Abstract Research on caregiving in the United States has not clearly identified the scope of the gap between care needed and care received and the changes implied by ongoing and anticipated shifts in family structure. This article...

...Robert Crosnoe; Kate Chambers Prickett; Chelsea Smith; Shannon Cavanagh Abstract Family structure change can disrupt the settings of children’s daily lives. Most scholarship focuses on disruption in the home environment. Moving beyond the home, this study explores the association between changes...

... – 138 . 10.2307/2060425 Kobrin Frances E. ( 1976 ). The Primary Individual and the Family: Changes in Living Arrangements in the United States Since 1940 . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 38 , 233 – 239 . 10.2307/350383 Kobrin Frances E. ( 1981 ). Family Extension...

...Larry L. Bumpass; R. Kelly Raley Abstract This paper explores the implications, for the measured prevalence and duration of mother-only families, of marked changes in nonmarital fertility, unmarried cohabitation, and homeleaving and re-entry. Throughout, estimates are compared on the basis...

..., changing family structures are considered to have strengthened the reproduction of social inequalities across generations. However, several studies have shown that childhood family structure relates differently to educational outcomes for sons than for daughters. Therefore, we ask whether there are gender...

... be evaluated a priori. In this paper we use family-status life tables to assess the effects of changes in demographic processes on the family status of elderly women and to project trends in elderly women’s family status. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1992 1992 Elderly Woman...

... and personal earnings has led to greater improvement in the family standard of living for married men than for women themselves. Gender-specific changes in assortative mating are mostly responsible for this paradoxical trend. Because the number of highly educated women exceeds the number of highly educated men...

... in recent decades. This context provides the opportunity to study these relationships within the same rapidly developing setting to see if and how these associations change. Results show that in urban areas, the association between family size and children’s schooling was positive for older cohorts...