Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas

ISBN-13: 9781108415958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 344 str.

Naomi Cahn; June Carbone; Laurie F. DeRose

Opis

This volume explores the causes and consequences of family inequality in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

Spis treści

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.