Fifty Years of Family Change: From Consensus to Complexity

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 654, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-30

  Furstenberg, Frank F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

family formation; inequality; marriage; multiple partner fertility; social class

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902138063     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716214524521     Document Type: Article

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