Family Life Course Status and Volunteer Behavior: Implications for the Single Parent

1990 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Sundeen
Author(s):  
Marion H. Wijnberg ◽  
Thomas Holmes

Identifying the role orientation of recently divorced women holds promise for further understanding the divorce process and the family life cycle of nonnuclear families. The authors describe how 30 female heads of family perceived their adaptation to divorce and to the reconstruction and development of their family units. Results of this exploratory study further suggest that the meaning and value a divorced woman attaches to the mothering component of her role as well as the comfort she feels in accepting a work identity affect the ways in which she adapts to being a single parent. The consequences of this adaptation, in turn, alter the content of the family life cycle.


2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mai Stafford ◽  
Rebecca Lacey ◽  
Emily Murray ◽  
Ewan Carr ◽  
Maria Fleischmann ◽  
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Demography ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Van Winkle ◽  
Dalton Conley

Abstract Sequence analysis is an established method used to study the complexity of family life courses. Although individual and societal characteristics have been linked with the complexity of family trajectories, social scientists have neglected the potential role of genetic factors in explaining variation in family transitions and events across the life course. We estimate the genetic contribution to sequence complexity and a wide range of family demographic behaviors using genomic relatedness–based, restricted maximum likelihood models with data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study. This innovative methodological approach allows us to provide the first estimates of the heritability of composite life course outcomes—that is, sequence complexity. We demonstrate that a number of family demographic indicators (e.g., the age at first birth and first marriage) are heritable and provide evidence that composite metrics can be influenced by genetic factors. For example, our results show that 11% of the total variation in the complexity of differentiated family sequences is attributable to genetic influences. Moreover, we test whether this genetic contribution varies by social environment as indexed by birth cohort over a period of rapid changes in family norms during the twentieth century. Interestingly, we find evidence that the complexity of fertility and differentiated family trajectories decreased across cohorts, but we find no evidence that the heritability of the complexity of partnership trajectories changed across cohorts. Therefore, our results do not substantiate claims that lower normative constraints on family demographic behavior increase the role of genes.


1981 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blaine R. Porter ◽  
Randy S. Chatelain

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