The Demography of Transforming Families

Part I: Theories of Family Dynamics.- Chapter 1. Introduction and Theoretical Overview.- Chapter 2.The Future of Family Demography: Filling in the Fourth Cell.- Chapter 3. Family Demography and Personal Life.- Chapter 4. Delayed Fertility as a Driver of Fertility Decline?.- Part II: Methodological Analyses of Transforming Families.- Chapter 5. Cohort Effects on Fertility As Age-Period Interactions: A Reanalysis of American Birth Rates, 1917-2020.- Chapter 6. The Future of the Italian Family: Evidence from a Household Projection Model.- Chapter 7. A Multistate Analysis of United States Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility, 2005-10 and 2015-20: The Retreat From Marriage Continues.- Chapter 8. Heterogeneity in Hispanic Fertility: Confronting the Challenges of Estimation and Disaggregation.- Part III: Case Studies of Family Transformation.- Chapter 9. The Gender War and the Rise of Anti-Family Sentiments in South Korea.- Chapter 10. Cohort Change in Family Life Course Complexity of Adults and Children.- Chapter 11. Union Experience and Stability of Parental Unions in Sweden and Norway.- Part IV: Deviance and the Family.- Chapter 12. Criminal Offending Trajectories During the Transition to Adulthood and Subsequent Fertility.- Chapter 13. The Influence of Intimate Partner Violence on Early and Unintended Parenthood.

Robert Schoen received a 1972 Ph.D. degree in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has been a Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, and Penn State University, where he was the inaugural 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.