Stages of Family Life: Crash Course Sociology #38
One way of thinking about family life says that there are stages that families move through: courtship, marriage, child-rearing, and family life in your later years. We’ll also discuss changing patterns of marriage and childbearing in the US, highlighting some of the varied family types that exist.
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References:
Sociology by John J. Macionis, 15th edition (2014)
Trends in the Share of Never-Married Americans and a Look Forward, Pew Reseach Center http://www.pewsocialtrends.org..../2014/09/24/chapter-
Infidelity in heterosexual couples: demographic, interpersonal, and personality-related predictors of extradyadic sex. by Mark, Janssen, and Milhausen (2011) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21667234
The Divorce Surge Is Over, but the Myth Lives On https://www.nytimes.com/2014/1....2/02/upshot/the-divo
Sawhill (2014), analysis of Current Population Survey data https://www.brookings.edu/blog..../social-mobility-mem
Centers for Disease Control Morbidity and Mortaility Reports https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/previ....ew/mmwrhtml/mm4847a1
Family Size Among Mothers, Pew Research Center http://www.pewsocialtrends.org..../2015/05/07/family-s
FastStats: Births and Natality, Centers for Disease Control https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/births.htm
The Cost of Raising a Child, US Department of Agriculture https://www.usda.gov/media/blo....g/2017/01/13/cost-ra
America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012, US Census https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-570.pdf
Annie E. Casey Foundation, Kids Count Data Center analysis of American Community Survey data (2015) http://datacenter.kidscount.or....g/data/tables/107-ch
Recent Declines in Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, Centers for Disease Control https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db162.htm
Mean Age of Mothers on the Rise, Centers for Disease Control https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/produ....cts/databriefs/db232
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