* Peter Uhlenberg was awarded the Ph. D. in demography at the University of California,
Berke-ley, in 1971. He is now Associate Professor of sociology at the University of North�…

After many years of neglect, the field of family history has become, during the last 15 years,
one of the fastest growing areas of historical research. The quantity and quality of research�…

In recent years, the family has emerged as a major subject of historica inquiry.'Numerous
books and articles have appeared describing, among other things, the composition, kinship�…

teenth and the twentieth centuries, major changes occurred in the patterns of birth and death
of the American population. The birth rate declined by over 50 per cent, from around 50 per I�…

This article is the latest in a series of analy-ses of the progression of American women
through some critical stages of the life span based on data collected by the Census Bureau�…

First, and most important, is the devel-opment of constructs and models that represent
processes of family adaptation and change over time; the timing, arrangement, and duration�…

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EMPTY NEST TO FAMILY DISSOLUTION: LIFE COURSE TRANSITIONS INTO OLD AGE�…

As a theoretical orientation, the life course brings a contextual, dy namic, and temporal
perspective to studies of families and lives in the past and present. Building upon literature�…

History is often invoked to show" how we got where we are." While historical research can
perform that function, it can also perform two others: it can offer a comparative perspective�…

The life status table, an analytical model which follows a birth cohort through life and through
the never-married, presently married, widowed and divorced statuses, is developed and�…