Sampson Lee Blair is a Family Sociologist and Demographer at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. His research interests include parent-child relationships, mate selection, marriage, and fertility.Zheng Mu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. Her general research interests focus on trends, social determinants, and consequences of marriage and family behaviors, with a focus on how marriage and family have served as inequality-generating mechanisms.

• Part I. Reasons, Views, and Values Toward Marriage Chapter 1. Challenges and Choices: Unveiling the Motivators Behind Delayed Marriage in Iran; Milad Bagi Chapter 2. Understanding the Cognitive and Emotional Processes of Singles from the Perspective of Attachment Theory; Lucija Šutić, Karmen Korda Orlović, Matea Šoštarić, and Margareta Jelić Chapter 3. Transforming Marriage Purpose in Contemporary China: The Role of Cohort and College Education; Yiqing Gan and Wenjing QinChapter 4. It’s About Survivors, Not Sex: Exploring Future Aspirations of Undergraduate Survivors of Sexual Assault; Ioana Podarita and Christina L. Scott Part II. Reasons, Views, and Values Toward Parenthood Chapter 5. Reasons, Views, and Values Toward Becoming a Parent: A Mixed Method Examination; Brittany Stahnke, Morgan Cooley, and Amy Blackstone Chapter 6. Subjective Evaluations of Personal and Public Well-Being and Expected Future Childbearing; Karen Benjamin Guzzo and Sarah R. Hayford Chapter 7. Understanding the Lowest-low Fertility of Contemporary China: The Multidimensional Reproductive Beliefs among Chinese Youth; Ting Li Chapter 8. (De)Coupling of Marriage and Fertility Intentions: Evidence from a Survey of College Students in China; Zheng Mu, Mengxin Shi, Yu Zhao, and Chan Zhang Chapter 9. "I'll take one for the team": Individual and Couple-Level Decisions about Sterilization; Sharon Sassler, Amanda Jayne Miller, and Katharina Geppert Part III. Diversity in Marriage and Parenthood Chapter 10. Single But Not Singular: Exploring the Diverse Realities of Singleness in Indonesia; Karel Karsten Himawan and Christina ClaudiaChapter 11. Navigating Romance: The Enduring Challenges of College-Educated Black Women; Sarah Adeyinka-Skold and Austin Colby Guy LeeChapter 12. Trends in Cohabitation and Marriage by Experience of Economic Vulnerability in the United States; Margaret Gough Courtney Chapter 13. Moving together or Living apart: Cross-border Couples between Hong Kong and Shenzhen under the COVID-19 Pandemic; Xinyu Shi and Jing Song Chapter 14. Gendered Employment Realities in Dual Earner Couples: A Framework for Understanding the Differential Effects of Earning Levels for Evaluations of Mothers and Fathers; Ziding Shen and Jody Clay-Warner

Sampson Lee Blair is a Family Sociologist and Demographer at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. His research interests include parent-child relationships, mate selection, marriage, and fertility.Zheng Mu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. Her general research interests focus on trends, social determinants, and consequences of marriage and family behaviors, with a focus on how marriage and family have served as inequality-generating mechanisms.

• Part I. Reasons, Views, and Values Toward Marriage Chapter 1. Challenges and Choices: Unveiling the Motivators Behind Delayed Marriage in Iran; Milad Bagi Chapter 2. Understanding the Cognitive and Emotional Processes of Singles from the Perspective of Attachment Theory; Lucija Šutić, Karmen Korda Orlović, Matea Šoštarić, and Margareta Jelić Chapter 3. Transforming Marriage Purpose in Contemporary China: The Role of Cohort and College Education; Yiqing Gan and Wenjing QinChapter 4. It’s About Survivors, Not Sex: Exploring Future Aspirations of Undergraduate Survivors of Sexual Assault; Ioana Podarita and Christina L. Scott Part II. Reasons, Views, and Values Toward Parenthood Chapter 5. Reasons, Views, and Values Toward Becoming a Parent: A Mixed Method Examination; Brittany Stahnke, Morgan Cooley, and Amy Blackstone Chapter 6. Subjective Evaluations of Personal and Public Well-Being and Expected Future Childbearing; Karen Benjamin Guzzo and Sarah R. Hayford Chapter 7. Understanding the Lowest-low Fertility of Contemporary China: The Multidimensional Reproductive Beliefs among Chinese Youth; Ting Li Chapter 8. (De)Coupling of Marriage and Fertility Intentions: Evidence from a Survey of College Students in China; Zheng Mu, Mengxin Shi, Yu Zhao, and Chan Zhang Chapter 9. "I'll take one for the team": Individual and Couple-Level Decisions about Sterilization; Sharon Sassler, Amanda Jayne Miller, and Katharina Geppert Part III. Diversity in Marriage and Parenthood Chapter 10. Single But Not Singular: Exploring the Diverse Realities of Singleness in Indonesia; Karel Karsten Himawan and Christina ClaudiaChapter 11. Navigating Romance: The Enduring Challenges of College-Educated Black Women; Sarah Adeyinka-Skold and Austin Colby Guy LeeChapter 12. Trends in Cohabitation and Marriage by Experience of Economic Vulnerability in the United States; Margaret Gough Courtney Chapter 13. Moving together or Living apart: Cross-border Couples between Hong Kong and Shenzhen under the COVID-19 Pandemic; Xinyu Shi and Jing Song Chapter 14. Gendered Employment Realities in Dual Earner Couples: A Framework for Understanding the Differential Effects of Earning Levels for Evaluations of Mothers and Fathers; Ziding Shen and Jody Clay-Warner

Sampson Lee Blair is a Family Sociologist and Demographer at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. His research interests include parent-child relationships, mate selection, marriage, and fertility.Zheng Mu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. Her general research interests focus on trends, social determinants, and consequences of marriage and family behaviors, with a focus on how marriage and family have served as inequality-generating mechanisms.

• Part I. Reasons, Views, and Values Toward Marriage Chapter 1. Challenges and Choices: Unveiling the Motivators Behind Delayed Marriage in Iran; Milad Bagi Chapter 2. Understanding the Cognitive and Emotional Processes of Singles from the Perspective of Attachment Theory; Lucija Šutić, Karmen Korda Orlović, Matea Šoštarić, and Margareta Jelić Chapter 3. Transforming Marriage Purpose in Contemporary China: The Role of Cohort and College Education; Yiqing Gan and Wenjing QinChapter 4. It’s About Survivors, Not Sex: Exploring Future Aspirations of Undergraduate Survivors of Sexual Assault; Ioana Podarita and Christina L. Scott Part II. Reasons, Views, and Values Toward Parenthood Chapter 5. Reasons, Views, and Values Toward Becoming a Parent: A Mixed Method Examination; Brittany Stahnke, Morgan Cooley, and Amy Blackstone Chapter 6. Subjective Evaluations of Personal and Public Well-Being and Expected Future Childbearing; Karen Benjamin Guzzo and Sarah R. Hayford Chapter 7. Understanding the Lowest-low Fertility of Contemporary China: The Multidimensional Reproductive Beliefs among Chinese Youth; Ting Li Chapter 8. (De)Coupling of Marriage and Fertility Intentions: Evidence from a Survey of College Students in China; Zheng Mu, Mengxin Shi, Yu Zhao, and Chan Zhang Chapter 9. "I'll take one for the team": Individual and Couple-Level Decisions about Sterilization; Sharon Sassler, Amanda Jayne Miller, and Katharina Geppert Part III. Diversity in Marriage and Parenthood Chapter 10. Single But Not Singular: Exploring the Diverse Realities of Singleness in Indonesia; Karel Karsten Himawan and Christina ClaudiaChapter 11. Navigating Romance: The Enduring Challenges of College-Educated Black Women; Sarah Adeyinka-Skold and Austin Colby Guy LeeChapter 12. Trends in Cohabitation and Marriage by Experience of Economic Vulnerability in the United States; Margaret Gough Courtney Chapter 13. Moving together or Living apart: Cross-border Couples between Hong Kong and Shenzhen under the COVID-19 Pandemic; Xinyu Shi and Jing Song Chapter 14. Gendered Employment Realities in Dual Earner Couples: A Framework for Understanding the Differential Effects of Earning Levels for Evaluations of Mothers and Fathers; Ziding Shen and Jody Clay-Warner