Demographic Trends in the United States: A Review of Research in the 2000s

By A. Cherlin. Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010

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Demographic trends in the 2000s showed the continuing separation of family and household due to factors such as childbearing among single parents, the dissolution of cohabiting unions, divorce, repartnering, and remarriage. The transnational families of many immigrants also displayed this separation, as families extended across borders. In addition, demographers demonstrated during the decade that trends such as marriage and divorce were diverging according to education. Moreover, demographic trends in the age structure of the population showed that a large increase in the elderly population will occur in the 2010s. Overall, demographic trends produced an increased complexity of family life and a more ambiguous and fluid set of categories than demographers are accustomed to measuring.

Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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A developmental model of financial capability (2013, background): “While rates of marriage have declined, rates of cohabitation have increased dramatically across all education levels, both in the US and around the world (Cherlin, 2010; Sassler, 2010).”
The Suffocation of Marriage: Climbing Mount Maslow Without Enough Oxygen (2014, background): “…analysis of the 3 Although highly educated Americans married as frequently as in previous generations, they did so later in life; in contrast, less (Cherlin,2010;Goldstein&Kenney,2001). changing nature of marriage in America—effects that are likely to be present, to a greater or lesser extent,…”