| Edition |
Fourteenth edition. |
| Description |
xii, 528 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The theoretical importance of the family / William J. Goode -- The global revolution in family and personal life / Anthony Giddens -- The life course revolution -- Arlene Skolnick -- Changes in the demographics of families over the course of American history / Donald J. Hernandez -- The mommy wars: ambivalence, ideological work, and the cultural contradictions of motherhood / Sharon Hays -- Decline of the family: conservative, liberal, and feminist views / Janet Z. Giele -- Why do gays want to marry? / George Chauncey -- Destined for equality / Robert M. Jackson -- Children of the gender revolution: some theoretical questions and findings from the field / Kathleen Gerson -- Raging hormones, regulated love: adolescent sexuality in the United States and the Netherlands / Amy T. Schalet -- Sexual revolution(s) / Beth Bailey -- The decline of the date and the rise of the college hook up / Paula England and Reuben J. Thomas -- Grounds for marriage: how relationships succeed or fail / Arlene Skolnick -- Cohabitation / Lynne M. Casper and Suzanne M. Bianchi -- Can marriage be saved? / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. -- Divorce culture: a quest for relational equality in marriage / Karla B. Hackstaff -- Children's adjustment following divorce: risk and resilience perspectives / Joan B. Kelly and Robert E. Emery -- The modern American stepfamily: problems and possibilities / Mary Ann Mason -- New families: modern couples as new pioneers / Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pope Cowan -- Caring for our young: child care in Europe and the United States / Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel -- Who are our children? Adoption, past and present / Lawrence Friedman -- The four facets of fatherhood / Nicholas Townsend -- Beyond sentimentality: American childhood as a social and cultural construct / Steven Mintz -- What children think about their working parents / Ellen Galinsky -- How families still matter: a longitudinal study of youth in two generations / Vern L. Berngston, Timothy F. Biblarz, and Robert E. L. Roberts -- Family values against the odds / Katherine S. Newman -- The second shift: working parents and the revolution at home / Arlie Hochschild, with Anne Machung -- The work-home crunch / Kathleen Gerson and Jerry A. Jacobs -- Families on the fault line / Lillian B. Rubin -- The economy that never sleeps / Harriet B. Presser -- Why middle-class mothers and fathers are going broke / Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi -- Diversity within African American families / Ronald L. Taylor -- Diversity within Latino families: new lessons for family social science / Maxine Baca Zinn and Barbara Wells -- Gay and lesbian families: queer like us / Judith Stacey -- "The normal American family" as an interpretive structure of family life among grown children of Korean and Vietnamese immigrants / Karen Pyke -- Prisoners' families and children / Jeremy Travis -- Unmarried with children / Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas -- Issues in the definition of family violence and abuse / Denise A. Hines and Kathleen Malley-Morrison. |
| Subject |
Families.
|
| Added Author |
Skolnick, Arlene S., 1933-
|
|
Skolnick, Jerome H.
|
| ISBN |
0205482651 paperbound |
|
9780205482658 paperbound |
|
