A higher status marriage system is a smaller, slower, and more stable marriage system.
Research reports
Review: Divorce, American Style: Fighting for Women’s Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era
Suzanne Kahn offers a fascinating, thorough, and highly readable study of divorce in the history of 20th Century U.S. feminism.
Black and White women’s lifetime marriage projections
Projections show 86.2% for White women, and 61.7% for Black women, eventually marrying for a cohort born and living through conditions prevailing in 2019.
Science says: Get married at age Whatever You Want (and these are the odds of divorce)
Divorce odds are lowest for women who marry later, and for people who've been married a long time.
Comment on pandemic family plans
In light of disparate impacts of COVID-19 itself and the social and economic fallout of the pandemic, research should concentrate on widening inequalities in fertility and family well-being, and their relationship to health disparities.
New paper: Baby Bust analysis of 124 counties in 2 states through February 2021
Births fell more in January/February in those counties with more COVID-19 cases, and those with more mobility limitation, through the end of last May.
The one-child policy was bad and so is “One Child Nation”
Nothing against watching it, but it's not good.
Author meets critic: Margaret K. Nelson, Like A Family
Like A Family is a fascinating, enjoyable read, full of thought-provoking analysis and a lot of rich stories, with detailed scenarios that let the reader consider lots of possibilities, even those not mentioned in the text.
Sociologist, scientist? Toward transparency, accountability, and a sharing culture
Whether or not sociology is science, we should have transparency, accountability, and a sharing culture in our work. This makes our work better, and also maybe increases our legitimacy in public.
The arriving divorce decline
A 3 percent drop in the refined divorce rate for 2018.
Family Inequality 