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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787047903321

Autore

Sawhill Isabel V.

Titolo

Generation unbound : drifting into sex and parenthood without marriage / / Isabel V. Sawhill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8157-2635-X

0-8157-2559-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Disciplina

306.874/32

Soggetti

Unmarried mothers - United States

Unmarried fathers - United States

Youth - Sexual behavior - United States

Family planning - United States

Marriage - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Inside Flap; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Preface; An Introduction; The End of Marriage?; Why Should We Worry?; A Growing Class Divide; Traditionalists and Village Builders; Childbearing by Design Not by Default; The Future: Less Marriage, Fewer Children?; Appendix; Notes; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents; the right argues for a return totraditional marriage.In  Generation Unbound, Isabel V. Sawhill offers a third approach: change ""drifters"" into ""planners."" In a well-written and accessible survey of the impact of family structure on child well-being, Sawhill contrasts ""planners,"" who are delaying parenthood until after they marry, with ""drifters,"" who