Diverse Family and Gender

Household Demographics

• A record 64 million Americans live in multigenerational households (Pew Research Center)
• A Third of Young Adults Live With Their Parents (U.S. Census)

Diverse Families & Marriage in the U.S.

• Big disparities found in interracial marriage — and opinions on it (San Francisco Gate)
• Fact and Fiction in Mixed-Race Marriages (Psychology Today)
• One family's life in the wilderness (BBC)

Families & Ethnicity

• They were raised to be ‘colorblind’ — but now more white parents are learning to talk about race (The Washington Post)
  

• How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism (The Atlantic)

Families & Gender

• Americans No Longer Prefer Sons to Daughters (Fatherly)
• 'Are you a boy or a girl'? How Drag Queen Story Hour is opening children's minds (The Guardian)

Fathers & Gender

• Most dads say they spend too little time with their children; about a quarter live apart from them (Pew Research)
• Science Says Dads Treat Daughters Differently Than Sons, and It Really Seems to Matter (Parents)

Mothers & Gender

• For Mother and Daughter, Weekly Photos Become a Bonding Experience (Today)

Marriage & Gender

• A woman taking a man's name in marriage is actually still a huge deal (Hello Giggles)
• Who wears the pants in a relationship matters – especially if you're a woman (The Conversation)
• Why I don't do emotional work - Many women feel overwhelmed by the extra mental work required of them, but there are options (Mother Nature Work)

Couples & Gender

• Why couples sleep better in more gender-equal societies (The Conversation)

LGBTQ Families

• LGBTQ Families are on the Rise (Scary Mommy)

Families & Social Class

• Why Poor Parents Say Yes to Junk Food (The Los Angeles Times)

• Crying babies can reduce household income by 11 per cent an hour (The Telegraph)
• Here's How Your Relationship Status Affects Your Bank Account (Brides)

Marriage & Social Class

• Marrying Across Class Lines (Context)
• Marrying Up by Marrying Down: Status Exchange between Social Origin and Education in the United States (Sociological Science)

• Can you afford to get married? In the US, it's increasingly the privilege of the rich (The Guardian)
• How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege? (The New York Times)
• Vegas Is Bearing Witness to America’s Economic Marriage Divide (Bloomberg)
• When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners (The Atlantic)

Families & Poverty

• The hidden driver of high US child-poverty rates (New York Post)
• Why do poor Americans eat so unhealthfully? (Dallas News)
• How the homeless create homes (Salon)