The De Jong Lecture in Social Demography

Gender and the Reallocation of Time Later in Life

Discussants

Valarie King is Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development & Family Studies at Penn State. Dr. King studies intergenerational relationships across the life course. She is principal investigator of a six-year project supported by NICHD examining the role of nonresident fathers in the lives of their children, and the consequences of this involvement for child well-being. Dr. King has also conducted research on stepfamilies, grandparent-grandchild relationships, and cohabitation among older adults.

Frances Goldscheider is Professor of Sociology, emerita, at Brown University and College Park Professor of Family Science at the University of Maryland. Her studies on living arrangements include analyses of trends in living alone among the elderly, leaving and returning home among young adults, entry into unions (marital and cohabiting), men's, women's, and children's roles in the household division of labor, and new forms of fatherhood, including single, absent and household (step). She has written numerous books and scholarly articles, including New Families, No Families? The Transformation of the American Home (with Linda Waite). Her major research focus is on the demography of fatherhood in the US and Sweden.

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