This book offers an overview of the latest developments in contemporary population issues by examining the current unprecedented changes in fertility, family behavior, mortality, and migration. It explores new theoretical perspectives that seek to incorporate narratives of the future, demographic uncertainty, and determinants of unplanned pregnancy. The context of fertility is changing, and the new, important subjects of policy interventions, multi-partner fertility and complex parenthood are explored. Recent developments in assortative mating, partner choice, and relationship stability are examined in both national and international contexts, while further chapters analyze contemporary international migration. Methodological advances in modeling heterogeneity in mortality and extending period/cohort translation relationships are presented, and new analyses explore the implications of age patterns of fertility change. As such, this book provides up-to-date research spanning the entire field to illuminate contemporary developments, and will be of value to demographers, sociologists, economists, and all those interested in understanding demographic change.

Provides insights into the latest developments in contemporary population issues Incorporates narratives of the future and demographic uncertainty Explores new theoretical perspectives by leaders in the field

Autorentext

Robert Schoen received a Ph.D. degree in Demography from the University of California Berkeley in 1972. He has been a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, and Penn State University, where he was the Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography. In 2004, he received the Mindel Sheps Award in Mathematical Demography / Demographic Methods from the Population Association of America.

Inhalt

Part I: Theoretical Perspectives.- Chapter 1. Social demography and social capital: An introduction and overview.- Chapter 2. Climate change and migration readiness, willingness, and ability.- Chapter 3. Policies and fertility: Pronatalist vs. structural approaches.- Chapter 4. Social origin and family formation: How marriage and parenthood affect the (re)production of social inequalities.- Part II: Marriage and Union Formation.- Chapter 5. The declining significance of age in support for cohabitation, 1994-2022.- Chapter 6. Do global inequalities shape marriage market patterns? Rethinking assortative mating in cross-national unions.- Chapter 7. Partnering with partisans: The importance of party identity for long-term partner preferences.- Chapter 8. Religious paradox or political divide? The intersection of religion, politics, and place of marriage in the US.- Part III: Contemporary Family Dynamics.- Chapter 9. U.S. women's and men's experience of complex parenthood.- Chapter 10. The impact of blurred work-family boundaries on parents' well-being.- Chapter 11. Adults' verbal abuse toward children: The role of unintended parenthood, parenting stress, and social psychological risk.- Part IV: Fertility and Childlessness.- Chapter 12. Subjective well-being and fertility uncertainty during the pandemic.- Chapter 13. Prevalence, cohort trends, and correlates of multiple-partner fertility in Colombia.- Chapter 14. Delayed fertility and childlessness.- Part V: Models and Methods.- Chapter 15. Generalizing the period-cohort translation relationship to mortality and other decrements.- Chapter 16. Heterogeneity in disability-free life expectancy: A discrete mixture model.- Chapter 17. Exponential age-change in fertility, proportional age-change, and stability.