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Timothy J. Biblarz

Family diversity expert specializing in divorce, single-parent households and gay and lesbian parents and children
  • Associate professor of sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Research associate, USC Population Research Laboratory
  • Research associate, Gerontology Research Institute, USC Andrus Gerontology Center
Office: (213) 740-3547
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Expertise

  • sociology of the contemporary American family - divorce, children, family diversity (single-parent families, blended families, gay and lesbian families, etc.)
  • social inequalities in the United States
  • social mobility and stratification
  • families, neighborhoods and children's wellbeing in Los Angeles County
  • survey data analysis
  • demography
  • family change and politics
  • gay and lesbian (LGBT) family issues
  • gender issues
  • sexual politics

Additional Information

  • Author of How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations (2002)
  • Consulting editor of American Journal of Sociology
  • Member, American Sociological Association; National Council on Family Relations; Pacific Sociological Association; Population Association of America; and the Population Reference Bureau
  • Recipient, USC General Education Teaching Award (2002); and the Sex and Gender Best Article Award for How Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter, American Sociological Review