Out of wedlock: causes and consequences of nonmarital fertility

Ch. 1. Historical and Life Course Trajectories of Nonmarital Childbearing / Lawrence L. Wu, Larry L. Bumpass and Kelly Musick

Ch. 2. Differences in Nonmarital Childbearing Across States / Kelleen Kaye

Ch. 3. European Perspectives on Nonmarital Childbearing / Kathleen Kiernan

Ch. 4. Cohabitation and Childbearing Outside Marriage in Britain / John Ermisch

Ch. 5. Welfare Benefits and Female Headship in U.S. Time Series / Robert A. Moffitt

Ch. 6. 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

Ch. 7. Unwed Parents or Fragile Families? Implications for Welfare and Child Support Policy / Sara McLanahan, Irwin Garfinkel and Nancy E. Reichman / [et al.]

Ch. 8. Changing Role of Child Support Among Never-Married Mothers / Judi Bartfeld and Daniel R. Meyer

Ch. 9. Unintended Pregnancy and the Consequences of Nonmarital Childbearing / Sanders Korenman, Robert Kaestner and Theodore J. Joyce

Ch. 10. Intergenerational Effects of Nonmarital and Early Childbearing / Robert Haveman, Barbara Wolfe and Karen Pence

Ch. 11. Finding a Mate? The Marital and Cohabitation Histories of Unwed Mothers / Daniel T. Lichter and Deborah Roempke Graefe

Ch. 12. Impact of Nonmarital Childbearing on Subsequent Marital Formation and Dissolution / Dawn M. Upchurch, Lee A. Lillard and Constantijn W. A. Panis

Ch. 13. Nonmarital Fertility: Lessons for Family Economics / Shelly Lundberg

Ch. 14. New Developments in the Study of Nonmarital Childbearing / Andrew J. Cherlin.