Immigration and the new American family examined through numbers, trends, and everyday life.
This non-fiction work analyzes how marital status, intermarriage, and illegitimacy shape the mixing of native and foreign-born populations in early 20th-century America. It presents key findings drawn from census-like data and discusses how marriage, births, and migration patterns reveal social change without relying on speculation or guesswork.
- Learn how marital conditions differ between native-born and foreign-born groups, and how these gaps influence birth rates.
- See how rates of intermarriage and illegitimacy illuminate changes in family life and cultural blending.
- Explore how geographic distribution and ethnicity interact with marriage and fertility to shape population trends.
- Understand how researchers measure vitality and social integration using demographic indices.
Ideal for readers of immigration history, demography, and social statistics who want a clear picture of how families evolve across cultural lines in American history.