in life. But the underlying neolocal family formation behavior was the same in both colonial North America and the areas …

Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family … women in the past had a high success rate in combining family and career. Cohort I (graduating c. 1910) had a 50% rate of … career vary from 24% to 33% for all college graduate women in the sample. Thus only 13% to 17% of the group achieved 'family …

"family or career,? while the second, graduating from 1945 to the early 1960s, opted for family and employment serially - that … is, "family then job." The third, graduating since 1980 in a climate of greater gender equality, is attempting both … "family and career, " with mixed results and considerable frustration. This paper assesses the reasons for the changing set of …

This paper examines U.S. family exchange and support, its levels and trends. The paper points out the importance of … demographics and geographic mobility in affecting the amount and form of family exchange. It then considers family economic … family altruism and risk sharing. The paper paints a very pessimistic picture. Demographic, geographic, and economic …