Frank Furstenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 163895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Furstenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Furstenberg |
| SIGNATURE | FURSTENBERG F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Families Give and Receive
Support of family members has been a long-standing interest of social scientists. Contemporary American families must provide support to members in a historical context wherein family inequality continues to rise. Based on the life course perspective, and utilizing qualitative, in-depth interviews with 50 multi-generational participants from the Family Exchanges Study, this article explores the mechanisms through which families across the socioec…
Social Class and Development in Early Adulthood
This response to Jeffrey Arnett’s article on social class and the development of emerging adults points out a number of limitation in the data, analysis, and conclusions. For reasons outlined in my commentary, I take issue with his conclusion that social class differences in the development of young adults are modest. I try to show why that interpretation of the data presented is premature and unwarranted
Investing in Children
Parental spending on children is often presumed to be one of the main ways that parents invest in children and a main reason why children from wealthier households are advantaged. Yet, although research has tracked changes in the other main form of parental investment—namely, time—there is little research on spending. We use data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine how spending changed from the early 1970s to the late 2000s, focusing …
Helicopter Parents and Landing Pad Kids
Popular media describe adverse effects of helicopter parents who provide intense support to grown children, but few studies have examined implications of such intense support. Grown children (N = 592, M age = 23.82 years, 53% female, 35% members of racial/ethnic minority groups) and their parents (N = 399, M age = 50.67 years, 52% female; 34% members of racial/ethnic minority groups) reported on the support they exchanged with one another. Intens…
Connecting Entrance and Departure
Recent reports have demonstrated that the United States has a dropout crisis of alarming proportions. In some large-city school systems, more than 50% of students leave high school without a diploma. A large proportion of these dropouts have not accumulated enough credits to be promoted beyond ninth grade. Using survey and student record data for a cohort of Philadelphia public school students, the authors find that ninth-grade academic outcomes …
How Families Manage Risk and Opportunity in Dangerous Neighborhoods
Birth Control Knowledge and Attitudes among Unmarried Pregnant Adolescents
Frank Furstenberg, Jr., Leon Gordis, Milton Markowitz, Birth Control Knowledge and Attitudes among Unmarried Pregnant Adolescents: A Preliminary Report, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Feb., 1969), pp. 34-42
Investing in Children
Parental spending on children is often presumed to be one of the main ways that parents invest in children and a main reason why children from wealthier households are advantaged. Yet, although research has tracked changes in the other main form of parental investment—namely, time—there is little research on spending. We use data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine how spending changed from the early 1970s to the late 2000s, focusing …
Helicopter Parents and Landing Pad Kids
Popular media describe adverse effects of helicopter parents who provide intense support to grown children, but few studies have examined implications of such intense support. Grown children (N = 592, M age = 23.82 years, 53% female, 35% members of racial/ethnic minority groups) and their parents (N = 399, M age = 50.67 years, 52% female; 34% members of racial/ethnic minority groups) reported on the support they exchanged with one another. Intens…
Connecting Entrance and Departure
Recent reports have demonstrated that the United States has a dropout crisis of alarming proportions. In some large-city school systems, more than 50% of students leave high school without a diploma. A large proportion of these dropouts have not accumulated enough credits to be promoted beyond ninth grade. Using survey and student record data for a cohort of Philadelphia public school students, the authors find that ninth-grade academic outcomes …
Birth Control Knowledge and Attitudes among Unmarried Pregnant Adolescents
Frank Furstenberg, Jr., Leon Gordis, Milton Markowitz, Birth Control Knowledge and Attitudes among Unmarried Pregnant Adolescents: A Preliminary Report, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Feb., 1969), pp. 34-42
How Families Give and Receive
Support of family members has been a long-standing interest of social scientists. Contemporary American families must provide support to members in a historical context wherein family inequality continues to rise. Based on the life course perspective, and utilizing qualitative, in-depth interviews with 50 multi-generational participants from the Family Exchanges Study, this article explores the mechanisms through which families across the socioec…
Birth Control Knowledge and Attitudes among Unmarried Pregnant Adolescents
Frank Furstenberg, Jr., Leon Gordis, Milton Markowitz, Birth Control Knowledge and Attitudes among Unmarried Pregnant Adolescents: A Preliminary Report, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Feb., 1969), pp. 34-42
How Families Manage Risk and Opportunity in Dangerous Neighborhoods
Connecting Entrance and Departure
Recent reports have demonstrated that the United States has a dropout crisis of alarming proportions. In some large-city school systems, more than 50% of students leave high school without a diploma. A large proportion of these dropouts have not accumulated enough credits to be promoted beyond ninth grade. Using survey and student record data for a cohort of Philadelphia public school students, the authors find that ninth-grade academic outcomes …
Helicopter Parents and Landing Pad Kids
Popular media describe adverse effects of helicopter parents who provide intense support to grown children, but few studies have examined implications of such intense support. Grown children (N = 592, M age = 23.82 years, 53% female, 35% members of racial/ethnic minority groups) and their parents (N = 399, M age = 50.67 years, 52% female; 34% members of racial/ethnic minority groups) reported on the support they exchanged with one another. Intens…
Investing in Children
Parental spending on children is often presumed to be one of the main ways that parents invest in children and a main reason why children from wealthier households are advantaged. Yet, although research has tracked changes in the other main form of parental investment—namely, time—there is little research on spending. We use data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine how spending changed from the early 1970s to the late 2000s, focusing …
Social Class and Development in Early Adulthood
This response to Jeffrey Arnett’s article on social class and the development of emerging adults points out a number of limitation in the data, analysis, and conclusions. For reasons outlined in my commentary, I take issue with his conclusion that social class differences in the development of young adults are modest. I try to show why that interpretation of the data presented is premature and unwarranted
How Families Give and Receive
Support of family members has been a long-standing interest of social scientists. Contemporary American families must provide support to members in a historical context wherein family inequality continues to rise. Based on the life course perspective, and utilizing qualitative, in-depth interviews with 50 multi-generational participants from the Family Exchanges Study, this article explores the mechanisms through which families across the socioec…
Psychology (6 works) · Demography (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (2 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 works)