Race, ethnicity, and the changing context of childbearing in the United States

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 539-558

  Sweeney, Megan M ^a   Raley, R Kelly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Inequality; Nonmarital childbearing; Teen childbearing; US families

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905274948     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043342     Document Type: Article

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