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Dew, Jeffrey – Social Forces, 2009
Qualitative and quantitative research has suggested that married couples handle the increasing demands of intensive parenting norms and work expectations by reducing spousal time (e.g., the time that spouses spend alone with each other). Using nationally representative time-diary data, this study examined whether married individuals with children…
Descriptors: Marital Satisfaction, Child Rearing, Time, Spouses
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Marsh, Kris; Darity, William A., Jr.; Cohen, Philip N.; Casper, Lynne M.; Salters, Danielle – Social Forces, 2007
The literature on the black middle class has focused predominantly on married-couple families with children, reflecting a conception of the black middle class as principally composed of this family type. If that conception is correct, then declining rates of marriage and childrearing would imply a decline in the presence and vitality of the black…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Marriage, African Americans, Marital Status
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Brunsma, David L. – Social Forces, 2005
In this article, a nationally-representative sample of kindergarten-aged children is used from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to explore the structure of parental racial designation of mixed-race children. The variation in these parental designations of a variety of mixed-race children is described. Parental racial designations in the…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Multiracial Persons, Longitudinal Studies, Young Children