Carlson, Marcia J.

Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America. - 1 online resource (249 pages) - Studies in Social Inequality Ser. . - Studies in Social Inequality Ser. .

Intro -- 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.

This book offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of the condition of the American family in an era of growing inequality.

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Equality -- United States.
Families -- United States.
Social classes -- United States.


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