The McLanahan Award is given in honor of Sara McLanahan, a remarkable scholar, mentor, and policy advisor. The award goes to a senior scholar for extraordinary contributions to the study of family change, the well-being of children and families, and related social policies.

Make an impact on the future of sociology! Donate to the ASA Student Travel Award Fund before Dec. 3 to help emerging scholars attend the ASA Annual Meeting! University travel support is increasingly scarce, so your donation is more important than ever! https://www.asanet.org/donate.

N-IUSSP: Families and households Socioeconomic inequalities and single women’s entry into parenthood in Belgium www.niussp.org/family-and-h... #demography #populationstudies

Research on views of child support over time, working parents sharing childcare, and more is available now in JMF's October issue: tinyurl.com/JMF-Oct2025 #FamilyScience #SocialScience #SocialSciences #SocialScienceResearch #ParentingResearch #OpenAccess

UNC-Greensboro is hiring two assistant professors in the Human Development and Family Studies Department! Sociology PhDs are eligible...this is one of the top HDFS programs in the country spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/32914

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Friend support is a powerful buffer against depression for older adults with health problems - especially among unmarried persons. @geronmedia.bsky.social @asasmh.bsky.social @buciss.bsky.social @nacda-icpsr.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social

🚨 Our new paper (w/ Kausiki Sarma) on housework & marital violence in India is just out! We provide a "radical" rethinking of housework beyond labour division and gender performance. @sriucl.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I spoke about adolescent peer cultures, gender norms, and technological harm with the Council on Contemporary Families for @thesocietypages.bsky.social. Thanks @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ariellekuperberg.bsky.social for the invite! #AcademicSky #Sociology thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/09/...

What makes a desirable spouse in China? Our @jmfncfr.bsky.social paper (w/ Jia Yu, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social, Yang Zhou & Yu Xie) draws on a national survey experiment to net out and examine mate preferences among unmarried Chinese & their roles in shaping assortative mating doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

Coming up later today at the @asanews.bsky.social conference, promoting your family research at 12:30pm, and the family reception/awards ceremony tonight, 6:30-8:30! See you there!

💘 Do apps make dating more efficient? New in @josoperrel.bsky.social August issue, Manlin Cai, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social & I draw on a temporal lens and in-depth interviews to explore the "efficiency paradox" in how immigrants experience time & efficiency in online dating. doi.org/10.1177/0265...

45% of 25-34-year-olds in America had married, had a kid, joined the labor force and lived away from their parents in 1975. 21% of this same age group had achieved these milestones in 2024. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2025/08/milestones-to-adulthood.html

This #FathersDay, flip the script: give your time. A new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief by Daniel Carlson & @pettsric.bsky.social shows that when dads share childcare & housework everyone wins: better relationships, healthier kids, and happier dads. Read more here: sites.utexas.edu/contemporary...

Get to know our #ASA2025 host city of Chicago!

How does child marriage alter women's work-family life courses? How do key interventions fare? Mariam Abouelenin & I look into these Qs – we highlight accelerated transition into adulthood as a key feature of life course transitions in the Global South: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are you coming to the ASA conference? Be sure to stop by the Family section reception and award ceremony on Monday August 11th from 6:30-8:30pm at The Gage, 24 South Michigan Avenue. See you there!

Here's a paper that thoroughly reviews the economic implications of low fertility AND thoroughly discusses the many options for addressing the potential consequences. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Did you know that 22.8% of Belgians care for/provide support to family members who need help due to age, illness or disability? A striking stat from a recent @reusilience.bsky.social paper by @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social @wvlancker.bsky.social powered by TSS data and proposed as ESS Rotating Module.

This research brief "Love and Belonging: How Immigrants Find Romantic Partners in Canada” (migration.ubc.ca/publications...) may be of interest to @asa-family.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @news.ubc.ca @migrationcollab.bsky.social @ncfr.bsky.social @contexts.org @theglobeandmail.com

Many people ask: "Do you want children?" But few are asking: “Do you feel able to have children?” Let @unfpa.org—the #UnitedNations sexual and reproductive health agency—reveal how #TheRealFertilityCrisis is a story of agency and choice, not numbers: unf.pa/fty

🆕📄Journal of Marriage and Family w/ M. Jacob📄 Parenthood in Europe: Not More Life Satisfaction, but More Meaning in Life Previous research in soc was very focused on satisfaction & happiness. BUT: many find meaning equally or more important than happiness. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

94. When total fertility rates dipped below 2.0 in England and Wales in the 1930s, some people blamed the introduction of white bread. (This hypothesis has not been definitively disproven)

Even when you adjust definitions of infant mortality, the US experiences this at far higher levels than its peer nations. ourworldindata.org/where-are-ba...

How do women become relational managers in marriage? @Aliciamwalker1.bsky.social tells us about this silent labor of love this week @CCFamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @TheSocietyPages.bsky.social Check it out: thesocietypages.org/ccf/

We are still looking for more mentors for the ASA family section mentoring program, and still accepting sign ups to be a mentee, sign up here by May 2nd: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Do you want to be included in our family starter pack or know other family sociologists who should be included? Leave a comment here, and follow our starter pack to hear the latest research on families! go.bsky.app/E3PGiEm

The website for the new @asanews.bsky.social journal, Sex & Sexualities is live!! It publishes cutting-edge sociological research on sexualities by fostering space for rigorous intersectional, interdisciplinary, transnational, feminist, and critical research. journals.sagepub.com/home/SNS

Listen to ASA member Karen Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, comment on fertility rates and pronatalists on NPR's Morning Edition @npr.org. n.pr/43JtVnN

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The Family Section mentoring match is BACK! Sign up by May 2! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Family Section mentoring match is BACK! Sign up by May 2! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

From our friends in the Children & Youth Section: a Free Media Training Event! ▶️https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBy6vCJI6y3mporIGDU2wB9efvQHuv-X1zFuIC_FlPsG1ruQ/viewform

An overview of the federal webpages that have disappeared. This 'scrubbing' is pervasive across institutes and departments. wapo.st/4gzr3wc

“Can Family Policies Enhance Fertility?” R. Guetto, G. Alderotti & D. Vignoli explore the policy-fertility nexus & assess how parental leave, childcare services & child benefits may influence fertility--with childcare appearing to be the strongest policy lever. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

🔥 Super excited to see our paper (with Guetto & Vignoli, @florenceups.bsky.social) about family policies and fertility in Italy freshly published on Demography ! 👇👇👇

Fantastic!

📣 Predoc/postbac fellowship in educational research & action at Notre Dame! It is a fully funded, two-year research training program designed to prepare college graduates for admission to top Ph.D. programs in fields that advance educational research & action. Apply: cladlab.nd.edu/era-fellowsh...

📘 "Abortion is one of the most politically divisive topics currently being discussed in the media. No study has yet attempted to make cross-national comparisons assessing the nuances associated with various views on abortion in the English public press..." 🧵 1/2

I'm loving this piece by @nymag.com, which echoes my research with millennials & their parents. How do families reconcile independence ideals with ongoing parental support? I'll be exploring the "limiting" & "laundering" strategies that legitimate financial transfers at #ESS in March - join me!

A little joy in what's shaping up to be a rough week (month? year(s)?): A new paper in DR! We use interview, GIS, and survey data to look at kinship and child fostering, thinking about spatiality and transitions over time. I'm dreaming of data that would let us do this on a larger scale! #demography

🆕📝 in Journal of Marriage and Family by Natalie Nitsche, Daniela Grunow & me: We study how both partners' gender ideologies—their ideological pairings—affect housework division in 🇩🇪. It's Open Access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #sociology #demography @ncfr.bsky.social

"English readers, if you're curious about what @celinebessiere.bsky.social and I had to say on families and wealth, check out the English translation of our introduction to the special issue (in French) that we recently co-directed on the topic journals.openedition.org/efg/21099

Who gets to claim #MLK? @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social's research reveals how different groups have strategically interpreted Dr. King's words to advance their own causes—often in ways that directly conflict. Find our 2024 conversation on the @contexts.org blog ▶️ contexts.org/blog/mlk-mem...

This week @CCFamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @TheSocietyPages.bksy.social, Demie Kurz answers 3 questions about her new book, Letting Go: Parenting Teens and Young Adults in a Time of Uncertainty Check it out: thesocietypages.org/ccf/

Please spread the word—one more week to submit your books!!

Childbirth leads men and women’s commuting patterns to diverge, with mothers staying closer to home where access to high-quality jobs is scarce. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....