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Explaining Family Change and Variation: Challenges for Family Demographers

Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: Twenty years ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a request for proposals that resulted in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), a unique survey valuable to a wide range of family scholars. This paper describes the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of family demographers to build on the progress enabled by the NSFH and many other theoretical and methodological innovations. Our work, also supported by NICHD, will develop plans for research and data collection to address the central question of what causes family change and variation. We outline the group's initial assessments of orienting frameworks, key aspects of family life to study, and theoretical and methodological challenges for research on family change. Finally, we invite family scholars to follow our progress and to help develop this shared public good.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2005.00183.x
Authors: Judith A. Seltzer, Christine A. Bachrach, Suzanne M. Bianchi, Caroline H. Bledsoe, Lynne M. Casper, P. Lindsay Chase‐Lansdale, Thomas A. DiPrete, V. Joseph Hotz, S. Philip Morgan, Seth G. Sanders, Duncan Thomas
Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, Northwestern University, University of Southern California, Columbia University, Duke University
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1999119120
FWCI: 10.1
Cites: 100
Cited by: 91
Related to: 10