Papers from a conference held in Albany, N.Y., April 6-7, 1990 sponsored by the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
(cont.) For love or money? Sociodemographic determinants of the expected benefits from marriage / Scott J. South -- Families, parents, and children. The disappearing American father? Divorce and the waning significance of biological parenthood / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Kathleen Mullan Harris -- Intergenerational resource transfers across disrupted households : absent fathers' contributions to the well-being of their children / Jay D. Teachman -- The influence of the parental family on the attitudes and behavior of children / Arland Thornton -- Work in the home : the productive context of family relationships / Linda Waite and Frances K. Goldscheider. Current themes in the social demography of the American family / Stewart E. Tolnay and Scott J. South -- Family patterns : the historical dimension. Race and multigenerational family structure, 1900-1980 / Steven Ruggles and Ron Goeken -- Group differences in economic opportunity and the timing of marriage : blacks and whites in the rural South, 1910 / Nancy S. Landale and Stewart E. Tolnay -- The impact of the Civil War on American widowhood / Amy E. Holmes and Maris A. Vinovskis -- Marriage and cohabitation : current issues. American marriage patterns in transition / Neil G. Bennett, David E. Bloom, and Patricia H. Craig -- A further look at first unions and first marriages / Robert Schoen and Dawn Owens -- Cohabitation : precursor to marriage or an alternative to being single? / Ronald R. Rindfuss and Audrey VandenHeuvel -- Young adults' views of marriage, cohabitation, and family / James A. Sweet and Larry L. Bumpass.
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