Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Part I: Trends and International Comparisons ; Chapter 1. Historical and Life Course Trajectories of Nonmarital Childbearing / Lawrence L. Wu, Larry L. Bumpass, and Kelly Musick ; Chapter 2. Differences in Nonmarital Childbearing Across States / Kelleen Kaye ; Chapter 3. European Perspectives on Nonmarital Childbearing / Kathleen Kiernan ; Chapter 4. Cohabitiation and Childbearing Outside Marriage in Britain / John Ermisch ; Part II: Welfare, Child Support, and Public Policy.
  • Chapter 5. Welfare Benefits and Female Headship in U.S. Time Series / Robert A. Moffitt Chapter 6. The Young and the Not Quite So Young: Age Variation in the Impact of AFDC Benefits on Nonmarital Childbearing / E. Michael Foster and Saul D. Hoffman ; Chapter 7. Unwed Parents or Fragile Families? Implications for Welfare and Child Support Policy / Sara McLanahan, Irwin Garfinkel, Nancy E. Reichman, and Julien O. Teitler ; Chapter 8. The Changing Role of Child Support Among Never-Married Mothers / Judi Bartfeld and Daniel R. Meyer ; Part III: Consequences for Children and Adults.
  • Chapter 9. Unintended Pregnancy and the Consequences of Nonmartial Childbearing / Sanders Korenman, Robert Kaestner, and Theodore J. Joyce Chapter 10. Intergenerational Effects of Nonmarital and Early Childbearing / Robert Haveman, Barbara Wolfe, and Karen Pence ; Chapter 11. Finding a Mate? THe Marital and Cohabitation Histories of Unwed Mothers / Daniel T. Lichter and Deborah Roemke Graefe ; Chapter 12. The Impact of Nonmarital Childbearing on Subsequent Marital Formation and Dissolution / Dawn M. Upchurch, Lee A. Lillard, and Constantijn W. A. Panis ; Part IV: Summary.
  • Chapter 13. Nonmarital Fertility: Lessons for Family Economics / Shelly Lundberg Chapter 14. New Developments in the Study of Nonmarital Childbearing / Andrew J. Cherlin ; Index.