Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition

By Sara McLanahan. Demography, 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Ready or Not? (2009, positive): “This is noteworthy given that family formation patterns have been found to vary across socioeconomic levels (McLanahan, 2004) and the distinctions of emerging adulthood may be more pronounced among middle-class and upper-class young people.”
Divorce in Europe and the United States: Commonalities and differences across nations (2010, background): “Many scholars view the widespread increase in divorce as part of the second demographic transition, which includes related trends such as delays in age at first marriage, the growing popularity of nonmarital cohabitation, and a rise in nonmarital births (Lesthaeghe, 1995; McLanahan, 2004).”
Schedule flexibility in hourly jobs: unanticipated consequences and promising directions (2012, background): “First seen as a support for professional women seeking to combine work with caregiving, workplace flexibility is now framed as a strategic business initiative that can help bring outdated workplaces into the twenty-first century, a time when both men and women are more likely to be a member of a dua”
Marriage and Family in East Asia: Continuity and Change (2015, background): “This framework provides a compelling basis for understanding evidence of growing socioeconomic differences in marriage and fertility and for evaluating ideas about diverging destinies (McLanahan 2004) in the East Asian context.”
The Widening Income Achievement Gap. (2013, background): “Children in highincome families are increasingly likely to be raised by two parents, both with college degrees, whereas lowincome children are more likely than ever to be raised by a single mother with a low level of education (McLanahan, 2004; Schwartz & Mare, 2005).”
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions that Improve Character and Cognition (2013, neutral): “11See McLanahan (2004) and Heckman (2008).”
Demographic Trends in the United States: A Review of Research in the 2000s (2010, background): “, less divorce) for the best-educated segment of the population while remaining the same or moving in discouraging directions (more divorce) for the less educated (McLanahan, 2004).”
A Matter of Time: Father Involvement and Child Cognitive Outcomes (2018, background): “…time in child care has positive impacts on children’s cognitive capacities, it could be a contributing factor to the intergenerational (re)production of inequalities and the diverging destinies of children from more and less advantaged families (Kalil, Ryan, & Corey, 2012; McLanahan, 2004).”