..., and (2) whether they were more common in North American colonial family life around 1700 or at the time of survey. A third type assessed beliefs about the future: (3) whether certain marriage attributes will increase or decrease in the U.S. over the next 20 years. developmental idealism marriage...

...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...