Describes long-term sociodemographic trends that have shaped American women's behaviors in three role sets: as workers, as wives and sexual partners, and as childbearers. Documents reactions to trends among conservative family policy spokespersons and among progressive spokespersons and looks at contrasting policy goals and objectives of…

Reviews trends and research findings related to marriage and divorce, unwed parenthood, labor force participation of women, and life expectancy to assess their implications for family policy. Outlines number of policy and programmatic measures as ways of helping to bring about more equitable distribution of well-being among diverse groups of…

Studied time use by mothers in single- and two-parent families, with both employed and nonemployed mothers. Single, employed mothers have least amount of time to spend in most activities. Analysis of covariance and least square means were used to study and identify significant differences in household tasks, child care, volunteer time, personal…