Handbook of Marriage and the Family

In a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1987, the editors have assembled a distinguished group of contributors to address such topics as past, present, and future perspectives on family diversity; theory and methods of the family; changing family patterns and roles; the family and other institutions; and family dynamics and processes.

In contrast, birth order has no significant effect on such achievement apart from
the higher probability of being in a smaller family if ... Government spending on
Social Security for the elderly may be offset by reduced transfers from children to
their ... expenditures away from the favored (by the government program)
children toward other children and/or themselves. ... the 1960s, especially the
Perry Preschool Study, and found that, although these programs had no
permanent effect on IQ, ...