Sociology Now, Census Update

ago—or even 25 years ago. Among 25-year-old women, the fastest-growing demographic status is single, working, childless, head of ...

cohabited, and 60 percent of all marriages formed in the 1990s began with cohabitation (Teachman, 2003). Globally, cohabitation ...

dissolve, there will be no legal means of distributing household resources equitably, and no spousal support after the “divorce. ...

relationship, when marriage has not yet become a topic of discussion. Some view sex as an appropriate conclusion to a first date ...

two or more races, and 22 percent of Americans have a rel- ative in a mixed-race marriage (Pew Research Center, 2007). Blacks ar ...

3.They are less likely to have children.Fifty-nine percent of married couples ver- sus 22 percent of lesbian couples and 5 perce ...

Parenting In the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951), a mysterious stranger rents a room at a boardinghouse. When one of h ...

is enormously important, and parents also overvalue their role. The questions, as you’ve learned in this book, are not whether o ...

families (Sidel, 2006). In 2002, 16 percent of White, non-Hispanic children were liv- ing in mother-only families, as were 25 pe ...

or bad, it is increasingly inaccurate. The number of grandparents raising their grand- children has grown from 2.2 million in 19 ...

adoptees spend significant time trying to locate each other and experience some reunions or closure in their relationships. The ...

in their lives, while some others gave financial considerations, worries about stress, marriages too fragile to withstand childr ...

Sociologists understand that both statements are, at least, partially true. Some people believe that the easy availability of di ...

relationships. They fear that their relationships will fail, fear betrayal, and, most sig- nificantly, fear any change at all. D ...

Of course, this twenty-first-century revision of The Brady Bunchis a highly ide- alized view of blended families. When a divorce ...

the women had been subjected to moderate or severe violence in the home at some point. Perhaps more telling, the major- ity of t ...

Sibling violence goes beyond routine sibling rivalry. Earlier reports found that as many as 80 percent of American children had ...

1989; Cornell and Gelles, 1982; Straus, Gelles, and Steinmetz, 1980). Rates of child-to-parent violence decrease as the child ag ...

There is actually little empirical evidence that spanking serves any developmental pur- pose, but there is a wealth of evidence ...

414 CHAPTER 12THE FAMILY KeyTerms Bilineal descent (p. 383) Cohabitation (p. 395) Companionate marriage (p. 387) Exogamy (p. 384 ...