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Examines factors distinguishing men's partnership and parental statuses in the United States and Sweden, which differ in state support to families. Unlike the United States, in Sweden the presence of a man in a household has little effect on receipt of income support and health insurance. This article examines how resources affect men's family relationships in these countries. (BF)

Examines expectations of very young adults (age 18) and their mothers about financial support that parents might provide under a variety of situations. Results indicate a lower proportion of mothers expect to provide support than their children expect, with particularly large gaps between mothers and sons. Findings suggest disagreement and confusion about family values. (BF)

Examined how income and family structure affect Black-White differences in intergenerational financial flows, focusing on two-way flow between parents and children in years immediately after high school and how these flows influence educational expectations. Findings from data from High School and Beyond survey showed that Black young adults received less and contributed more income to their families. (Author/NB)

The effects of two key demographic transitions, declines in fertility and mortality rates and increases in divorce and cohabitation, are examined in terms of their likely impact on the changing nature of the family structure of the third millennium.

Over the last decade, research on the elderly family has been glowing, portraying strong marital and family relationships. But the currently elderly, while they have benefited from the demographic and economic transformations of modernity, did not participate in the family revolutions that have followed. Cohorts who will become the elderly of the 21st century have been on the leading edge of the family revolution, the rapid growth of labor force participation among women, the tremendous rise in divorce and in childrearing out of marriage, and the overall decline in marriage and remarriage. Increasingly, the elderly will not be married or not in their first marriage. Research has focused on women and children as the sufferers from divorce, but in old age, as family relationships based on marriage and parenthood grow in importance, it is males who are at risk. This article presents a series of research findings that specify these risks.

Used data from High School and Beyond to examine attitudes of high school seniors and their parents concerning a child's premarital residential independence (PRI). Results indicated that young people were more likely than their parents to expect PRI, in two-parent as well as in one-parent and stepparent families. (Author/NB)

In this age of 'the second demographic transition,' David Popenoe's book presents a useful set of literature reviews framed in a systematic theoretical argument that together are aimed at encouraging [...]