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Changing Family Structure and Youthful Well-Being

Assessing the Future

JOHN N. EDWARDS

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

The vanishing nuclear family constitutes one of the most significant demographic and social transformations in recent history. A voluminous body of theoretical and empirical literature in family studies, proceeding on the assumption that the nuclear family is the optimum child-rearing structure, suggests this change will have dire consequences for the well-being of future generations. The present essay challenges that conclusion, pointing out various methodological and conceptual problems with the extant research on which this prediction is based.

Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 8, No. 4, 355-372 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/019251387008004003
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