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This book provides an up-to-date survey on the nature, causes, and patterns of family change. The traditional nuclear family has been replaced by a multiplicity of other forms, as widespread cohabitation, high levels of divorce and union dissolution, rising childlessness, and far below replacement fertility have emerged to an extent never before seen. Theoretical perspectives on this "Second Demographic Transition" are presented, highlighting the dramatic changes in gender roles. New methodological strategies for assessing family dynamics are presented, from multistate models of marriage and divorce combined with fertility to improved techniques for combining census and survey data on the family to a new approach for disentangling age, period, and cohort effects. While the volume emphasizes Western nations, insightful case studies range from analyzing family complexity in cohorts of parents and children in the UK to the impact of interpartner violence on family formation, to the emergence of a "gender war" in South Korea. By providing new insights into where we are today and how we got here, the book will be of value to all those interested in the contemporary family.
"Delayed Fertility as a Driver of Fertility Decline?" available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
List of contents
Part I: Theories of Family Dynamics.- Chapter 1. Introduction and Theoretical Overview.- Chapter 2.The Future of Family Demography: Filling in the Fourth Cell.- Chapter 3. Family Demography and Personal Life.- Chapter 4. Delayed Fertility as a Driver of Fertility Decline?.- Part II: Methodological Analyses of Transforming Families.- Chapter 5. Cohort Effects on Fertility As Age-Period Interactions: A Reanalysis of American Birth Rates, 1917-2020.- Chapter 6. The Future of the Italian Family: Evidence from a Household Projection Model.- Chapter 7. A Multistate Analysis of United States Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility, 2005-10 and 2015-20: The Retreat From Marriage Continues.- Chapter 8. Heterogeneity in Hispanic Fertility: Confronting the Challenges of Estimation and Disaggregation.- Part III: Case Studies of Family Transformation.- Chapter 9. The Gender War and the Rise of Anti-Family Sentiments in South Korea.- Chapter 10. Cohort Change in Family Life Course Complexity of Adults and Children.- Chapter 11. Union Experience and Stability of Parental Unions in Sweden and Norway.- Part IV: Deviance and the Family.- Chapter 12. Criminal Offending Trajectories During the Transition to Adulthood and Subsequent Fertility.- Chapter 13. The Influence of Intimate Partner Violence on Early and Unintended Parenthood.
About the author
Robert Schoen received a 1972 Ph.D. degree in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has been a Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, and Penn State University, where he was the inaugural Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography. In 2004, he received the Mindel Sheps Award in Mathematical Demography/Demographic Methods from the Population Association of America.
