Frank Furstenberg
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frank Folke Furstenberg Jr. is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods and adolescent sexual behavior. Furstenberg has written extensively on social change, transition to adulthood, divorce, remarriage and intergenerational relations. Furstenberg is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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Published Works
- Social Capital and Successful Development among At-Risk Youth (1995) (738)
- Longitudinal studies of effects of divorce on children in Great Britain and the United States. (1991) (648)
- On the frontier of adulthood: Theory, research, and public policy. (2005) (618)
- Adolescent Mothers in Later Life (1988) (584)
- Managing To Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success. Studies on Successful Adolescent Development. (1999) (521)
- Divided Families: What Happens to Children When Parents Part (1992) (511)
- The Life Course of Children of Divorce: Marital Disruption and Parental Contact. (1983) (484)
- How Families Manage Risk and Opportunity in Dangerous Neighborhoods (1993) (482)
- STEPFAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES: A Reconsideration (1994) (439)
- On a New Schedule: Transitions to Adulthood and Family Change (2010) (432)
- Parenting Apart: Patterns of Childrearing After Marital Disruption. (1985) (402)
- Reevaluating the costs of teenage childbearing. (1993) (396)
- Are Parents Investing Less Time in Children? Trends in Selected Industrialized Countries (2004) (386)
- Investing in Children: Changes in Parental Spending on Children, 1972–2007 (2013) (378)
- Social Change and Transitions to Adulthood in Historical Perspective (1976) (364)
- Educational differences in parents' time with children: Cross-national variations (2004) (342)
- Paternal Participation and Children's Well-being after Marital Dissolution (1987) (333)
- The New American Grandparent: A Place in the Family, a Life Apart (1987) (320)
- The children of adolescent mothers: physical academic and psychological outcomes. (1986) (315)
- How marital dissolution affects children: Variations by age and sex. (1989) (309)
- Adolescent sexual behavior. (1989) (301)
- The Sociology of Adolescence and Youth in the 1990s: A Critical Commentary (2000) (293)
- The Prevalence and Correlates of Multipartnered Fertility Among Urban U.S. Parents (2006) (281)
- Growing Up is Harder to do (2004) (275)
- Teenaged pregnancy and childbearing. (1989) (271)
- Early Sexual Initiation: The Role of Peer Norms (1998) (266)
- Unplanned Parenthood: The Social Consequences of Teenage Childbearing (1976) (258)
- Paternal involvement with adolescents in intact families: The influence of fathers over the life course (1998) (251)
- Adolescent mothers and their children in later life. (1987) (249)
- Early warning signs of functional illiteracy: predictors in childhood and adolescence. (1993) (248)
- Helicopter Parents and Landing Pad Kids: Intense Parental Support of Grown Children. (2012) (240)
- Race Differences in the Timing of Adolescent Intercourse. (1987) (231)
- On the Frontier of Adulthood (2005) (228)
- Who Drops Out of and Who Continues Beyond High School? A 20-Year Follow-Up of Black Urban Youth (1993) (227)
- Introducing the Issue (2010) (227)
- Reconsidering the Effects of Marital Disruption (1994) (220)
- Banking on Families: How Families Generate and Distribute Social Capital (2005) (219)
- Good dads-bad dads: Two faces of fatherhood. (1988) (213)
- The children of teenage mothers: patterns of early childbearing in two generations. (1990) (210)
- Environmental differences within the family and adjustment differences within pairs of adolescent siblings. (1985) (204)
- The Transition to Adulthood during the Twentieth Century: Race, Nativity, and Gender. (2005) (195)
- Changes in Adolescents' Interpersonal Experiences: Are They Being Prepared for Adult Relationships in the Twenty‐First Century? (2002) (193)
- Connecting Entrance and Departure (2008) (188)
- Shifting Childrearing to Single Mothers: Results from 17 Western Countries. (2003) (186)
- Divorce and the American Family (1990) (185)
- Review of Glen Elder, Children of the Great Depression: Social Change in Life Experience (1975) (181)
- The social consequences of teenage parenthood. (1976) (181)
- Teenage childbearing as a public issue and private concern (2003) (178)
- Parental Attitudes and the Occurrence of Early Sexual Activity. (1986) (176)
- As the pendulum swings: teenage childbearing and social concern. (1991) (167)
- Fathering in the Inner City: Paternal Participation and Public Policy (1995) (166)
- Family support: helping teenage mothers to cope. (1978) (165)
- Delayed Parental Divorce: How Much Do Children Benefit? (2001) (157)
- Multipartnered fertility among American men (2007) (150)
- Recycling the Family: Remarriage after Divorce (1984) (139)
- Entry into Adulthood: Are Adult Role Transitions Meaningful Markers of Adult Identity? (2006) (131)
- Calling the Police: The Evaluation of Police Service (1973) (123)
- The intersections of social class and the transition to adulthood. (2008) (119)
- Explaining Aspects of the Transition to Adulthood in Italy, Sweden, Germany, and the United States: A Cross-Disciplinary, Case Synthesis Approach (2002) (115)
- Television viewing and early initiation of sexual intercourse: is there a link? (1991) (114)
- Styles and strategies of grandparenting. (1985) (112)
- Managing To Make It (2001) (107)
- Sex education and sexual experience among adolescents. (1985) (107)
- Burdens and Benefits: The Impact of Early Childbearing on the Family (1980) (103)
- The New Extended Family: The Experience of Parents and Children after Remarriage (1987) (102)
- Family communication and teenagers' contraceptive use. (1984) (98)
- Adolescent Females: Their Sexual Partners and the Fathers of Their Children. (1999) (97)
- Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teen Childbearing (2007) (94)
- "I'll Give You the World": Socioeconomic Differences in Parental Support of Adult Children. (2015) (93)
- Social Capital and the Family (2007) (93)
- Teenage Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing (1980) (82)
- Managing to Make It: Urban Families in High-Risk Neighborhoods (1999) (81)
- Fifty Years of Family Change (2014) (80)
- “Marriage Is More Than Being Together”: The Meaning of Marriage for Young Adults (2011) (78)
- Trends in the Economic Independence of Young Adults in the United States: 1973–2007 (2012) (75)
- Changing Places: Conjugal Careers and Women's Marital Mobility (1986) (75)
- The Timing of Marriage in the Transition to Adulthood: Continuity and Change, 1860-1975 (1978) (74)
- Multipartnered fertility among young women with a nonmarital first birth: prevalence and risk factors. (2007) (74)
- Does condom availability make a difference? An evaluation of Philadelphia's health resource centers. (1997) (72)
- The effect of divorce on intergenerational transfers: New evidence (1995) (70)
- Caring and Paying: What Fathers and Mothers Say about Child Support. (1992) (70)
- Intergenerational Transmission of Fathering Roles in At Risk Families (2000) (69)
- The Transition to Adulthood: A Time Use Perspective (2002) (68)
- When will teenage childbearing become a problem? The implications of western experience for developing countries. (1998) (68)
- Is Teenage Sexual Behavior Rational (1991) (67)
- Premarital Pregnancy and Marital Instability (1976) (67)
- Birth Control Experience Among Pregnant Adolescents: The Process of Unplanned Parenthood (1971) (66)
- Contraceptive continuation among adolescents attending family planning clinics. (1983) (66)
- Working parents: what factors are involved in their ability to take time off from work when their children are sick? (1999) (65)
- The Transmission of Mobility Orientation in the Family (1971) (64)
- The Making of the Black Family: Race and Class in Qualitative Studies in the Twentieth Century (2007) (64)
- Connecting Entrance and Departure: The Transition to Ninth Grade and High School Dropout - eScholarship (2001) (64)
- EARLY SEXUAL INITIATION : THE ROLE OF PEER NORMS (1999) (62)
- The risk of dissolution in remarriage: an examination of Cherlins hypothesis of incomplete institutionalization (1984) (61)
- Birth control knowledge and attitudes among unmarried pregnant adolescents: a preliminary report. (1969) (59)
- Recycling the family (1984) (55)
- Remarriage after Divorce: A Longitudinal Analysis of Well-Being. (1982) (55)
- Public Reaction to Crime in the Streets (2016) (54)
- When and why fathers matter: Impacts of father involvement on the children of adolescent mothers (2009) (54)
- Changes in the Transition to Adulthood in Less Developed Countries (2007) (52)
- History and current status of divorce in the United States. (1994) (46)
- Race differences in teenage sexuality, pregnancy, and adolescent childbearing. (1987) (46)
- When Fathers Matter/Why Fathers Matter: The Impact of the Paternal Involvement on the Offspring of Adolescent Mothers (1993) (45)
- Divorce and Child Development (1986) (45)
- Teenage childbearing and cultural rationality: a thesis in search of evidence. (1992) (44)
- Transitions to Adulthood (2013) (44)
- Industrialization and the American Family: A Look Backward (1966) (44)
- The Origins of the Female-Headed Black Family: The Impact of the Urban Experience (1975) (44)
- Delayed Adulthood, Delayed Desistance? Trends in the Age Distribution of Problem Behaviors. (2008) (42)
- Supporting teenagers' use of contraceptives: a comparison of clinic services. (1986) (41)
- Coming of age in the era of AIDS: puberty, sexuality, and contraception. (1990) (41)
- Children's Names and Paternal Claims (1980) (39)
- Parental Support During Young Adulthood (2013) (37)
- The impact of an increase in family planning services on the teenage population of Philadelphia. (1995) (37)
- The Ever Winding Path: Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the Transition to Adulthood (2004) (37)
- Remarriage and Reconstituted Families (1987) (33)
- Diverging Development: The Not-so-Invisible Hand of Social Class in the United States (2010) (32)
- Looking at Lives: American Longitudinal Studies of the Twentieth Century (2003) (32)
- Coming of Age in a Changing Family System (1990) (31)
- Family Change and Family Diversity (1999) (31)
- If Moynihan Had Only Known: Race, Class, and Family Change in the Late Twentieth Century (2009) (31)
- The Changing European Family (1988) (29)
- The Disappearing American Father? Divorce and the Waning Significance of Biological Parenthood (2019) (28)
- Non-normative life course transitions: reflections on the significance of demographic events on lives (2005) (28)
- Educational Aspirations, Expectations, and Realities for Middle-Income Families (2011) (27)
- Becoming adults: Challenges in the transition to adult roles. (2015) (27)
- Reflections on the Future of the Life Course (2003) (26)
- Growing up healthy: are adolescents the right target group? (2006) (25)
- Dealing With Dads: The Changing Roles of Fathers (1995) (25)
- THE CONSEQUENCES OF MULTI-PARTNERED FERTILITY FOR PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND RELATIONSHIPS (2007) (24)
- Work Experience and Family Life (1974) (23)
- Factors associated with adolescent use of family planning clinics. (1984) (22)
- Daddies and Fathers: Men Who Do for Their Children and Men Who Don't (1992) (22)
- How can family planning programs delay repeat teenage pregnancies? (1972) (21)
- Do We Invest Less Time in Children? Trends in Parental Time in Selected Industrialized Countries Since the 1960s (2004) (20)
- Grandparents & Family Crisis (1986) (20)
- Gender Differences in Spousal Caregivers' Care and Housework: Fact or Fiction? (2018) (20)
- Sociological Ventures in Child Development. (1985) (19)
- The Social Ecology of Child Endangerment (2002) (19)
- The Future of Intergenerational Relations in Aging Societies (2015) (19)
- Kinship Reconsidered: Research on a Neglected Topic. (2020) (19)
- Middle-Income Families in the Economic Downturn: Challenges and Management Strategies over Time (2011) (19)
- Preventing unwanted pregnancies among adolescents. (1971) (18)
- Reflections on Remarriage: Introduction to Journal of Family Issues Special Issue on Remarriage (1980) (18)
- Encouraging Education in an Urban School District: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study (2007) (17)
- Children and Family Change: Discourse between Social Scientists and the Media (1999) (16)
- Passage to Adulthood. (2010) (16)
- Prescribing, an index to quality of medical care: a study of the Baltimore City Medical Care Program. (1953) (15)
- The Transition to Adulthood: Introducing the Issue (2010) (15)
- Social Class and Development in Early Adulthood (2016) (15)
- Reevaluating the costs of teenage childbearing: Response to Geronimus and Korenman (1993) (14)
- Adolescent contraceptive use: the impact of family support systems. (1982) (13)
- Patterns of Multisystem Service Use and School Dropout Among Seventh-, Eighth-, and Ninth-Grade Students (2018) (13)
- The future of marriage. (1996) (13)
- The American Family in the Year 2000. (1983) (13)
- Starting early: the antecedents of early premarital intercourse. (1984) (13)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: The intersecting life courses of adolescent mothers and their children (1987) (12)
- Reconsidering Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood (2016) (12)
- Counting the Jobless: The Impact of Job Rationing on the Measurement of Unemployment (1975) (12)
- Should government promote marriage (2007) (12)
- School-to-Career and Post-Secondary Education: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study (2005) (11)
- Historical Trends in Patterns of Time Use among Young Adults in Developed Countries (2005) (11)
- Factors differentiating effective use of contraception among adolescents. (1990) (11)
- What Happened When the Census was Redone: An Analysis of the Recount of 1870 in Philadelphia (1979) (11)
- State-family Alliances and Children's Welfare (1997) (10)
- Bringing Back the Shotgun Wedding. (1988) (10)
- On the family, education, and war : selected writings (1970) (10)
- Premarital pregnancy among black teen-agers (1970) (10)
- Is the modern family a threat to children’s health? (1999) (9)
- Parental involvement: selling family planning clinics short. (1982) (9)
- How much do we count? interpretation and error-making in the decennial census (1999) (9)
- 1 Investing in Children : Changes in Parental Spending on Children , 1972 to 2007 (2010) (9)
- The experience of financial strain among families with children in the United States (2010) (9)
- Family Change and the Welfare of Children: What Do We Know and What Can We Do about It? (1995) (9)
- Kinship Practices Among Alternative Family Forms in Western Industrialized Societies. (2020) (8)
- Reaching Adulthood: Persistent Beliefs about the Importance and Timing of Adult Milestones (2021) (8)
- Financing Children's Futures: Economic Strategies for Postsecondary Education Among Middle‐Income Families (2017) (8)
- Family Change in Global Perspective: How and Why Family Systems Change. (2019) (8)
- Application of a response model for mother-daughter agreement by race. (1994) (8)
- The Logic and Practice of Growth Curve Analysis: Modeling Strategies for Life Course Dynamics (2016) (7)
- Family Change and Adolescent Well-Being: A Reexamination of U.S. Trends (1988) (7)
- Family development and the child (1985) (6)
- Behind the Academic Curtain: How to Find Success and Happiness with a PhD (2013) (6)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Methods and procedures used in Chapter 3 (1987) (6)
- Adolescence, Sociology of (2001) (6)
- Family change and variation through the lens of family configurations in low‐ and middle‐income countries (2019) (6)
- Most disadvantaged children : Who are they and where do they live? (1998) (5)
- Family communication and contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents. (1986) (5)
- A Sequence‐Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries (2021) (5)
- After the Burden is Lifted: Caregivers' Recovery of Life Satisfaction after The Death or Recovery of a Spouse. (2019) (5)
- Changing Gender Gaps in the Timing of First Union Formation and Sexual Initiation in Sub‐Saharan Africa (2021) (5)
- Early childbearing in the new era of delayed adulthood (2009) (5)
- Will Marriage Disappear? (2015) (5)
- The Transition to Adulthood. Special Issue of The Future of Children (2010) (5)
- Bringing in the Family: Kinship Support and Contraceptive Behavior (1981) (4)
- How Families Give and Receive: A Cross-Class Qualitative Study of Familial Exchange (2020) (4)
- Can Marriage Be Saved? (2011) (4)
- The Well-Being of California's Children (2003) (4)
- Racial Differences in the Transition to Adulthood: A Follow-Up Study of the Philadelphia Youth Study. (2000) (3)
- Inequalities in the use of time by teenagers and young adults (2001) (3)
- The Family in the City (2000) (3)
- The changing American family: an overview from 1965 to 2015 (2016) (3)
- Teenage Parenthood and Family Support. (1980) (3)
- Wealth Inequalities Across Generations (2014) (3)
- Society and the Individual at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century (2016) (3)
- Early initiation of sexual activity: The role of peer norms (1996) (3)
- Trends in Mental and Physical Health-Related Quality of Life in Low-Income Older Persons in the United States, 2003 to 2017 (2019) (3)
- Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960–2010 (2012) (2)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Frontmatter (1987) (2)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Life-history calendar (1987) (2)
- “ The Challenges of Finding Causal Links Between Family Characteristics and Educational Outcomes ” (2009) (2)
- Chapter Eight. The Recent Transformation of the American Family (2020) (2)
- Comment: How Do Low-Income Men and Fathers Matter for Children and Family Life? (2011) (2)
- Teenage Mothers in Later Life (and the Researchers who Study them) (2007) (2)
- COMPREHENSIVE CARE FOR THE AGING IN THE OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT. (1965) (2)
- Relative Risks: What is the Family Doing to Our Children? (1998) (2)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Preface (1987) (1)
- Journeys in Sociology: From First Encounters to Fulfilling Retirements (2018) (1)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Experience in adulthood (1987) (1)
- THE FAMILIES IN THE CITY (2014) (1)
- REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPACT OF EMULSION THERAPY IN THE PRACTICE OF ALLERGY. (1963) (1)
- Sociology and Human Sexuality (1981) (1)
- Measuring the Adaptation of Countries to Societal Aging (2018) (1)
- A hospital-based program of specialized care for the aged. (1966) (1)
- Delayed Adulthood, Delayed Desistance? A Brief Report on Changing Age Schedules of Risky Behaviors (2020) (1)
- Who Initiates the Help Older Parents Give to Midlife Children. (2019) (1)
- A US State Index of Successful Aging: Differences Between States and Over Time. (2021) (1)
- Response to Amato (2007) (1)
- American Kinship Reconsidered (2018) (1)
- Pros and cons of repository injection therapy in the practice of allergy. (1963) (1)
- One Hundred Years of Change in the American Family (1987) (1)
- TREATMENT OF ACUTE REACTIONS TO INSECT STINGS. (1964) (0)
- How I Became a Developmentalist (2013) (0)
- Keynote Address: Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood (2006) (0)
- Families in the Middle: "Specific" and "General" Educational Aspirations among Middle-income Parents (2012) (0)
- Multiple socio-economic contexts during adolescence and health behaviors in young adulthood (2016) (0)
- North and South of the Transition . A Comparison of Subjective Perceptions of Adulthood in Uruguay and the United States (2011) (0)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Analysis of sample attrition for bias (1987) (0)
- THE IMPACT OF TITLE XVIII ON OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENTS * (1967) (0)
- REPORTS OF DRUG REACTIONS. (1964) (0)
- Sex Educationand Sexual Experienceamong Adolescents (2005) (0)
- The repository method for the treatment of ragweed pollinosis (1959). A co-operative study involving 1218 patients. (1960) (0)
- Life Course Reflections (2002) (0)
- The state of marriage: contemporary marriage. (1988) (0)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: The life course of adolescent mothers: implications for public policy (1987) (0)
- Should Your Hospital Have an Aging Center (1968) (0)
- The impact of Title 18 on outpatient departments. (1967) (0)
- Investing in children's futures: the experiences of Albertan parents during a global economic crisis: final report (2010) (0)
- Dissolution of Family in Western Nations: Cultural Concerns (2001) (0)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Reassessing adolescent parenthood (1987) (0)
- Cause for Alarm? Understanding Recent Trends in Teenage Childbearing (2008) (0)
- Social Class Differences in the Timing and First Sex, First Birth and Marriage (2009) (0)
- The Study That Got Away (2015) (0)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Reliability (1987) (0)
- Comprehensive medical care. Sinai Hospital's approach to medical care for the aged. (1965) (0)
- Social Implications of Teenage Parenthood (1980) (0)
- Book Reviews (1997) (0)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Description of data sets used for comparison of socioeconomic variables with Baltimore data set in Table 2.2 (1987) (0)
- Book Review:Children of the Great Depression: Social Change in Life Experience. Glen Elder (1975) (0)
- Pathways a Magazine on Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy Is This Executive Paid Too Much? New Ideas for Reforming Executive Pay (2008) (0)
- Socioeconomic Differences in Parental Support 863 (2015) (0)
- HISTORICAL ROOTS OF FAMILY DIVERSITY c Marital and Childbearing Trajectories of American Women (2005) (0)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Bibliography (1987) (0)
- Union formation, within‐couple dynamics, and child well‐being: A global macrolevel perspective (2023) (0)
- The impact of changes in maternal age on the wellbeing of children. (2007) (0)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: The children's experience (1987) (0)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Pathways to success in adulthood (1987) (0)
- Changing Gender Gaps in the Timing of Partnership Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020) (0)
- Conjugal Succession and the American Kinship System. (1981) (0)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Description and details of multivariate analysis reported in Chapter 4 and 5 (1987) (0)
- The Incomplete Institution@@@Recycling the Family: Remarriage after Divorce. (1985) (0)
- Books Received (1993) (0)
- Family Change and Intergenerational Support in Aging Societies (2015) (0)
- Roundtable: Infant Care and Child Development. (1997) (0)
- Parting : The Aftermath of Separation and Divorce / Recycling the Family : Remarriage after Divorce (2013) (0)
- Union Formation, Within-Couple Dynamics, and Child Well-Being in Global Comparative Perspective (2022) (0)
- Adolescent mothers in later life: Procedure for computing summary statistics in Chapter 6 (1987) (0)
- Remarriage (2017) (0)
- 25. Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Services in High School Clinics (1981) (0)
- Multipartnered Fertility and Children's Behavioral Outcomes Among Urban U.S. Families (2017) (0)
- Strategies of Evaluating Police Performance (1972) (0)
- Observations on the Weltmann reaction in hay fever and asthma (1943) (0)
- AGING ACROSS THE STATES (2018) (0)
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