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Hardcover:

9780805852547 | Routledge, May 30, 2005, cover price $125.00

Miscellaneous:

9781410613523 | Routledge, June 2, 2005, cover price $110.00

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Over the last forty years, the number of American households with a stay-at-home parent has dwindled as women have increasingly joined the paid workforce and more women raise children alone. Many policy makers feared these changes would come at the expense of time mothers spend with their children. In Changing Rhythms of American Family Life, sociologists Suzanne M. Bianchi, John P. Robinson, and Melissa Milkie analyze the way families spend their time and uncover surprising new findings about how Americans are balancing the demands of work and family.Using time diary data from surveys of American parents over the last four decades, Changing Rhythms of American Family Life finds that—despite increased workloads outside of the home—mothers today spend at least as much time interacting with their children as mothers did decades ago—and perhaps even more. Unexpectedly, the authors find mothers’ time at work has not resulted in an overall decline in sleep or leisure time. Rather, mothers have made time for both work and family by sacrificing time spent doing housework and by increased “multitasking.” Changing Rhythms of American Family Life finds that the total workload (in and out of the home) for employed parents is high for both sexes, with employed mothers averaging five hours more per week than employed fathers and almost nineteen hours more per week than homemaker mothers. Comparing average workloads of fathers with all mothers—both those in the paid workforce and homemakers—the authors find that there is gender equality in total workloads, as there has been since 1965. Overall, it appears that Americans have adapted to changing circumstances to ensure that they preserve their family time and provide adequately for their children.Changing Rhythms of American Family Life explodes many of the popular misconceptions about how Americans balance work and family. Though the iconic image of the American mother has changed from a docile homemaker to a frenzied, sleepless working mom, this important new volume demonstrates that the time mothers spend with their families has remained steady throughout the decades.

Hardcover:

9780871541369 | Russell Sage Foundation, August 30, 2006, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Over the last forty years, the number of American households with a stay-at-home parent has dwindled as women have increasingly joined the paid workforce and more women raise children alone.

Paperback:

9780871540935 | Russell Sage Foundation, September 1, 2007, cover price $17.95

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Continuity and Change in the American Family engages students with issues they see every day in the news, providing them with a comprehensive description of the social demography of the American family. Understanding ever-changing family systems and patterns requires taking the pulse of contemporary family life from time to time. This book paints a portrait of family continuity and change in the later half of the 20th century, with a focus on data from the 1970's to present. The authors explore such topics as the growth in cohabitation, changes in childbearing, and how these trends affect family life. Other topics include the changing lives of single mothers, fathers, and grandparents and increasing economic disparities among families; child care and child well-being; and combining paid work and family. The authors are talented writers who bring considerable professional and scholarly background to bear in illuminating this topic in a thoughtful yet lively presentation.

Hardcover:

9780761920083 | Sage Pubns, December 20, 2001, cover price $156.00

Paperback:

9780761920090, titled "Continuity & Change in the American Family" | Sage Pubns, December 20, 2001, cover price $97.00 | About this edition: Continuity and Change in the American Family engages students with issues they see every day in the news, providing them with a comprehensive description of the social demography of the American family.

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Product Description: "A wonderful compendium of everything you always wanted to know about trends in women's roles—both in and out of the home. It is a balanced and data-rich assessment of how far women have come and how far they still have to go. "—Isabelle Sawhill, Urban Institute"Based primarily on the 1990 population census, Balancing Act reports on the current situation of American women and temporal and cross-national comparisons...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780871548146 | Russell Sage Foundation, May 1, 1996, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: "A wonderful compendium of everything you always wanted to know about trends in women's roles—both in and out of the home.

Paperback:

9780871548153 | Russell Sage Foundation, September 1, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "A wonderful compendium of everything you always wanted to know about trends in women's roles—both in and out of the home.

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Product Description: This is the first in a series of eighteen projected volumes, to be published over the next two years, aimed at converting the vast statistical yield of the 1980 Census into authoritative analyses of major changes and trends in American life...read more

Hardcover:

9780871541116 | Russell Sage Foundation, September 2, 1986, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: This is the first in a series of eighteen projected volumes, to be published over the next two years, aimed at converting the vast statistical yield of the 1980 Census into authoritative analyses of major changes and trends in American life.

Paperback:

9780871541123 | Russell Sage Foundation, October 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This is the first in a series of eighteen projected volumes, to be published over the next two years, aimed at converting the vast statistical yield of the 1980 Census into authoritative analyses of major changes and trends in American life.

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