Introduction Laurie F. DeRose, Naomi Cahn, June Carbone and W. Bradford Wilcox; Part I. The Increasingly Unequal Socioeconomic Character of Family Life: 1. Families unequal: socioeconomic gradients in family patterns across the US and Europe Marcia J. Carlson; 2. Family forms and social inequality in Latin America Albert Esteve and Elizabeth Flores Paredes; Part II. The Causes of Increasingly Diverging Family Structures: 3. How inequality drives family formation: the prima facie case Andrew J. Cherlin; 4. Universal or unique? Understanding diversity in partnership experiences across Europe Brienna Perelli-Harris; 5. Family structure and the decline of work for men in postwar America Nicholas Eberstadt; Part III. Consequences of Growing Divergence: 6. Single-mother families, mother's educational level, children's school outcomes: a study of 21 countries Anna Garriga and Paolo Berta; 7. Family structure and socioeconomic inequality of opportunity in Europe and the United States Diederik Boertien, Fabrizio Bernardi and Juho Härkönen; 8. Families and the wealth of nations: what does family structure have to do with growth around the globe? W. Bradford Wilcox and Joseph Price; Part IV. Bridging the Growing Family Divide: 9. Family policy, socioeconomic inequality and the gender revolution Fran Goldscheider and Sharon Sassler; 10. Where's the glue? Policies to close the family gap Richard V. Reeves; Part V. Commentary and Concluding Reflections: 11. The pathology of patriarchy and family inequalities Lynn Prince Cooke; 12. Concluding reflections: what does less marriage have to do with more family inequality? W. Bradford Wilcox; 13. Commentary/afterword/concluding thoughts on family change and economic inequality June Carbone and Naomi Cahn.