Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Trends and International Comparisons
Chapter 1. Historical and Life Course Trajectories of Nonmarital Childbearing / Lawrence L. Wu, Larry L. Bumpass, and Kelly Musick
Chapter 2. Differences in Nonmarital Childbearing Across States / Kelleen Kaye
Chapter 3. European Perspectives on Nonmarital Childbearing / Kathleen Kiernan
Chapter 4. Cohabitiation and Childbearing Outside Marriage in Britain / John Ermisch
Part II: Welfare, Child Support, and Public Policy
Chapter 5. Welfare Benefits and Female Headship in U.S. Time Series / Robert A. Moffitt
Chapter 6. The Young and the Not Quite So Young: Age Variation in the Impact of AFDC Benefits on Nonmarital Childbearing / E. Michael Foster and Saul D. Hoffman
Chapter 7. Unwed Parents or Fragile Families? Implications for Welfare and Child Support Policy / Sara McLanahan, Irwin Garfinkel, Nancy E. Reichman, and Julien O. Teitler
Chapter 8. The Changing Role of Child Support Among Never-Married Mothers / Judi Bartfeld and Daniel R. Meyer
Part III: Consequences for Children and Adults
Chapter 9. Unintended Pregnancy and the Consequences of Nonmartial Childbearing / Sanders Korenman, Robert Kaestner, and Theodore J. Joyce
Chapter 10. Intergenerational Effects of Nonmarital and Early Childbearing / Robert Haveman, Barbara Wolfe, and Karen Pence
Chapter 11. Finding a Mate? THe Marital and Cohabitation Histories of Unwed Mothers / Daniel T. Lichter and Deborah Roemke Graefe
Chapter 12. The Impact of Nonmarital Childbearing on Subsequent Marital Formation and Dissolution / Dawn M. Upchurch, Lee A. Lillard, and Constantijn W. A. Panis
Part IV: Summary
Chapter 13. Nonmarital Fertility: Lessons for Family Economics / Shelly Lundberg
Chapter 14. New Developments in the Study of Nonmarital Childbearing / Andrew J. Cherlin
Index