Indicators of Change in the American Family

Download or read book Indicators of Change in the American Family written by Abbott Lamoyne Ferriss and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1970-06-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a selection of existing and new measures of family change. The statistical time series are presented and organized around the topics of marriage, marital status, households, fertility, divorce, dependency, work and income, and poverty. The series selected for inclusion were chosen because of an apparent or assumed significant change which they displayed. They are illustrated by graphs and accompanied by a brief commentary. The statistical series are numbered in an appendix, and sources of the data are cited at the foot of the page of commentary.