Frank Furstenberg

Frank Folke Furstenberg Jr. is an American sociologist, born in 1940, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology Emeritus and a research associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. His research addresses the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, and the transition from adolescence to adulthood, and he has written on social change, divorce, remarriage, stepfamilies, grandparenthood, intergenerational relations and cross-national research on children's well-being; his work has been cited more than twenty two thousand times. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.