Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future.

The Handbook of Contemporary Families explores how families have changed in the last 30 years and speculates about future trends. Editors Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong, along with a multidisciplinary group of contributors, critique the approaches used to study relationships and families whi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications Inc.
Temas:
Families > United States.
Cultural pluralism > United States.
Familles > États-Unis.
Diversité culturelle > États-Unis.
Cultural pluralism
Families
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I
  • Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future; Chapter 1
  • Household Diversity: The Starting Point for Healthy Families in the New Century; Chapter 2
  • Alternate Lifestyles Today: Off the Family Studies Screen; Chapter 3
  • The Social and Cultural Construction of American Childhood; Part II
  • Contemporary Couples; Chapter 4
  • Cohabitation and Family Change; Chapter 5
  • Variations in Marriage over Time: An Ecological/Exchange Perspective; Chapter 6
  • Gay Men and Lesbians: The Family Context.
  • Chapter 7
  • Ambiguous Constructions: Development of a Childless or Child-Free Life CourseChapter 8
  • Intimate Relationships in Later Life: Current Realities, Future Prospects; Part III
  • Gender Issues in Contemporary Families; Chapter 9
  • Jobs, Marriage, and Parenting: Working It Out in Dual-Earner Families; Chapter 10
  • Gendered Family Relations: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same; Chapter 11
  • Feminist Visions for Transforming Families: Desire and Equality Then and Now; Part IV
  • Raising Children in Contemporary Families.
  • Chapter 12
  • Encountering Oppositions: A Review of Scholarship about MotherhoodChapter 13
  • Fathering: Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Dilemmas; Chapter 14
  • Pathogenic-Conflict Families and Children: What We Know, What We Need to Know; Part V
  • Changing Family Structures; Chapter 15
  • Divorce in Social and Historical Context: Changing Scientific Perspectives on Children and Marital Dissolution; Chapter 16
  • Single-Parent Families: Risks, Resilience, and Change; Chapter 17
  • Britain's Changing Families; Chapter 18
  • Stepfamilies: Changes and Challenges.
  • Part VI
  • Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary FamiliesChapter 19
  • Continuing Research on Latino Families: El Pasado y el Futuro ; Chapter 20
  • Diversity in African American Families: Trends and Projections; Chapter 21
  • Asian American Families: Diverse History, Contemporary Trends, and the Future; Chapter 22
  • A ""Seven-Generation"" Approach to American Indian Families; Chapter 23
  • Muslim Families in the United States; Part VII
  • Families in Society; Chapter 24
  • Families and Religious Beliefs, Practices, and Communities: Linkages in a Diverse and Dynamic Cultural Context.
  • Chapter 25
  • Family Law for Changing Families in the New MilleniumChapter 26
  • Building Enduring Family Policies in the 21st Century: The Past as Prologue?; Chapter 27
  • The Disturbing Paradox of Poverty in American Families: What We Have Learned over the Past Four Decades; Part VIII
  • Technology and Contemporary Families; Chapter 28
  • Brave New Families: Modern Health Technologies and Family Creation; Chapter 29
  • Understanding the Effects of the Internet on Family Life; Part IX
  • Working with Contemporary Families.
  • Chapter 30
  • Family Therapy's Response to Family Diversity: Looking Back, Looking Forward.

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