Product Description: More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, a keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future, whether inside or outside of academia...read more

Product Description: Teen childbearing has risen to frighteningly high levels over the last four decades, jeopardizing the life chances of young parents and their offspring alike, particularly among minority communities. Or at least, that’s what politicians on the right and left often tell us, and what the American public largely believes...read more

Product Description: How has the role of adolescence, as a life stage, changed in post-industrial Western societies? Although it's clear that there has been a definite change across most cultures in this life stage, the array of ways it has changed is surprising...read more

Product Description: This report looks at how children in California and the rest of the nation are faring along four important dimensions of child development: physical health, emotional and behavioral adjustment, attachment to school, and positive social involvement...read more

Product Description: The impact of long-term longitudinal studies on the landscape of twentieth century social and behavioral science cannot be overstated. The field of life course studies has grown exponentially since its inception in the 1950s, and now influences methodologies as well as expectations for all academic research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In spite of the upset children experience after parental separation, Furstenberg and Cherlin find that most children adapt successfully as long as their mother does reasonably well financially and psychologically, and as long as conflict between parents is low...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This landmark study traces the life histories of approximately 300 teenage mothers and their children over a seventeen-year period. From interview data and case studies, it provides a vivid account of the impact of early childbearing on young mothers and their children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Recycling the Family the authors examine the social, psychological and economic aspects of the divorce-remarriage transition. They demonstrate how and why the process of remarriage is fundamentally different from that of a first marriage, and identify the factors that redefine family life, including: keeping a distance from one's former spouse; inheriting stepchildren; the convolution of traditional blood and legal relationships; and built-in expectations of marital instability...read more