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654 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2014)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0654 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION Family Complexity: Setting the Context By MARCIA J. CARLSON and DANIEL R. MEYER Keywords: family complexity; multiple-partner fertil- ity; union instability; family change This volume is motivated by the dramatic changes in family life that have occurred in the United States over the past half century. Marriage has become less central to the life course, as individuals marry at older ages or not at all. Divorce rates rose rapidly until the 1980s and then plateaued and declined somewhat, although about half of marriages in the early twenty-first century were still predicted to end in divorce or permanent separation (Amato 2010); and the majority of those who divorce will remarry within 10 years (Bramlett and Mosher 2002). Cohabitation before (or instead of) marriage has become much more wide- spread; the percentage of women ages 15 to 44 whose first union was cohabitation (rather than marriage) increased from 47 percent in 1995 to 68 percent by 2006-2010 (Copen, Daniels, and Mosher 2013). Also, nonmarital childbearing has risen dramatically since the 1960s, such that today fully 41 percent of all births occur outside of marriage (Hamilton, Martin, and Ventura 2013). Marcia J. Carlson is a professor of sociology and affili- ate at the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her primary research interests center on the links between family contexts and the well-being of children and parents, especially for unmarried families. Daniel R. Meyer is the Mary C. Jacoby Professor of Social Work at the Lniresity of Wisconsin-Madison; he also has affiliations rith the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Aierican Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. His current research interests include family change and family policy, especially child support and welfare policies. DOI: 10.1177/0002716214531378 ANNALS, AAPSS, 654, July 2014 6

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