The widening gap between the rich and the poor is turning the American dream into an impossibility for many, particularly children and families. And as the chil

This book offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of the condition of the American family in an era of growing inequality.

Two generations ago, young men and women with only a high-school degree would have entered the plentiful industrial occupations which then sustained the middle-

The “Diverging Destinies” of American families has been a central focus of family demography for nearly two decades. Patterns of union and family formation

There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortab