Throughout the Western world, new patterns of family formation have emerged. Cohabitation and motherhood outside marriage have become more widespread, and women are attaining higher levels of education, are marrying at an older age, work more frequently outside the home, and have more reproductive freedom due to new advances in contraception. This book, which includes contributions by sociologists and demographers from eight West European countries and the United States, compares national variations to explain the connection between the new role of women and family formation in post-war society.
- ISBN10 0813323061
- ISBN13 9780813323060
- Publish Date 28 May 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Westview Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 266
- Language English