Experts

Frances K. Goldscheider is Professor Emeritus at Brown University and Professor at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include family, the demography of households, gender roles, methodology, aging, work and labor force, and ethnicity. Over the past year, journal articles she authored examined the decline in adult support for mothers of small children, the double standard in attitudes toward single parents, and whether men need marriage more than women.

She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marriage and Family and the Journal of Gerontology. Her book on changes in the American family, New Families/No Families: The Transformation of the American Home (with Linda Waite) won the Otis Dudley Duncan prize from the Population Section of the American Sociological Association. A forthcoming book, The Family Consequences of Child Disability will be published by the University of California Press.