@article{ref1,
title="The family in a changing world",
journal="Human nature",
year="1994",
author="Burgess, Robert L.",
volume="5",
number="2",
pages="203-221",
abstract="Increasing numbers of young mothers in the work force, more and more children requiring extrafamilial care, high rates of divorce, lower rates of remarriage, increasing numbers of female-headed households, growing numbers of zero-parent families, and significant occurrences of child maltreatment are just some of the social indicators indicative of the family in a changing world. These trends and their consequences for children are described and then examined from the perspectives of microeconomic theory, the relative-income hypothesis, sex-ratio theory, and one form of modernization theory. The paper concludes with a preliminary examination of the added explanatory power provided by evolutionary theory.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1045-6767",
doi="10.1007/BF02692161",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02692161"
}