..., and younger people. Differences by marital status and gender were small or nil. developmental idealism marriage United States development family We use 44 items appearing across the three waves that measured DI beliefs and attitudes about nine marriage attributes: early marriage (marital timing...

...Keera Allendorf; Linda Young-DeMarco; Arland Thornton This article examines a half-century of trends in family attitudes and beliefs in the United States, including attitudes toward gender, marriage, childbearing, cohabitation, sex outside marriage, divorce, and same-sex relations. These trends...

... about development and developmental hierarchies that are similar to those of international elites. A substantial majority of Albanians also endorse the developmental idealist belief of an association between socioeconomic development and family matters. Many perceive development as both a cause...