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Role of Fathers
Using a multimethod approach (including a survey, interviews, and observations), this article examines the link between class and masculinities by comparing the way two groups—professional men (physicians) and working-class men (emergency medical technicians, or EMTs)—practice fatherhood.

Questions to Consider:

1.  How has the change in workplace roles between men and women impacted housework duties?  Why, after the birth of a child, would a man's workplace hours increase?
2. According to the article how did the physicians' parenting roles differ from the parenting roles of the EMTS?
3. How can one's occupation impact his/her parenting roles?
    

Cohabitation
The present study examines how demographics, attitudes toward marriage, attitudes toward sexual activity, sexual behaviors, and dating experience are associated with three different attitudes toward cohabitation among never-married young adults.

Questions to Consider:

1.  What reasons can account for the rise of cohabitation in recent years?
2.  What are some of the differences between attitudes towards cohabitation and demographic factors?
    

Family Environments
This article considers whether aspects of family environments, particularly family cohesion, family conflict, and parental efficacy, mediate the influence of parental low self-control on delinquency.

Questions to Consider:

1. What is the self-control theory?
2. What factors can account for the relationship between family conflict and juvenile delinquency?
3. Why is self-control strongly associated with antisocial behavior, according to this article?