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The life course perspective, an interdisciplinary approach to individual andfamily development, is combined in this article with the qualitative research strategy of life history interviewing to examine hidden dimensions in the family life course. One stream that has long been unrecognized is the life course of women who remain unmarried and who do not become mothers. Their lives are contrasted to their more traditional peers who have experienced all the dimensions of the "typical" female life cycle: marriage, motherhood, grandmotherhood, and widowhood. On the basis of a sample of women from the 1910 birth cohort, the study compares ever-married mothers and lifelong single women with no children. |
