Encyclopedia of family life
By: editor, Carl L. Bankston III ; project editor, R. Kent Rasmussen.
Contributors: Bankston, Carl L. 1952-; Rasmussen, R. Kent.
Publisher: Salem Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Pasadena, Calif
Language: eng
Format: hardcover [5 volumes]
Subjects: Family -- North America -- Encyclopedias; Domestic relations -- North America -- Encyclopedias; Family services -- North America -- Encyclopedias
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: LIST OF ENTRIES:; title: Abandonment of the family --  Abortion -- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) -- Addams, Jane -- Adoption issues -- Adoption processes -- Adultery -- Advertising -- Affinity -- African Americans -- Age of consent -- Ageism -- Aging and elderly care -- Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) -- Al-Anon -- Alateen -- Alcoholism and drug abuse -- Alimony -- Allowances -- Allport, Gordon -- AIsager v. District Court -- Alternative family types -- Alzheimer’s disease -- Amerasian children -- American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) -- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) -- Ancestor worship -- Annulment -- Antimiscegenation laws -- Apgar, Virginia -- Arranged marriages -- Art and iconography -- Attachment theory -- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) -- Au pairs -- Baby-boom generation -- Baby boomers -- Baby-sitters -- Baby talk -- Baptismal rites -- Bar Mitzvahs and Bas Mitzvahs -- Battered child syndrome -- Bedtime reading -- Behavior disorders -- Bernard, Jessie Shirley -- Bethune, Mary McLeod -- Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) -- Bigamy -- Bilateral descent -- Birth control -- Birth defects -- Birth order -- Blended families -- Bonding and attachment -- Bradshaw, John -- Brazelton, T. Berry -- Breast-feeding -- Bride-price -- Bruner, Jerome -- Bundling -- Cassatt, Mary -- Child abandonment -- Child abduction -- Child abuse -- Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) -- Child and dependent care tax credit -- Child care -- Child Care and Development Block Grant Act -- Child custody -- Child molestation -- Child prodigies -- Child Protection and Toy Safety Act -- Child rearing -- Child safety -- Child support -- Child Support Enforcement Amendments -- Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) -- Childbirth -- Childhood fears and anxieties -- Childhood history -- Childless / truncated families -- Childlessness -- Children born out of wedlock -- Children’s Bureau -- Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) -- Children’s literature -- Children’s magazines -- Children’s rights -- Chinese Americans -- Circumcision -- Civil marriage ceremonies -- Clans -- Clark, Kenneth, and Mamie Clark -- Coats of arms -- Codependency -- Cohabitation -- Coles, Robert -- Corner, James P. -- Common-law marriage -- Communal living -- Communities -- Community programs for children -- Compadrazgo -- Competition during childhood -- Computer recreation -- Conjugal families -- Consanguinal families -- Cooney, Joan Ganz -- Corporal punishment -- Corporate families -- Couples -- Courting rituals -- Cousins -- Cross-cousins -- Cruelty as grounds for divorce -- Cult of True Womanhood -- Cultural influences -- Culture of poverty theory -- Curfews -- Cycle of violence theory -- Dating -- Dating violence -- Day care -- Death -- Desertion as grounds for divorce -- DINKs -- Disabilities -- Disciplining children -- Displaced homemakers -- Divorce -- Divorce mediation -- Domestic partners -- Domestic violence -- Dowry -- Dual-earner families -- Dysfunctional families -- Earned income tax credit -- East Indians and Pakistanis -- Eating disorders -- Eating habits of children -- Echo effect -- Edelman, Marian Wright -- Educating children -- Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) -- Elder abuse -- Electra and Oedipus complexes -- Ellis, Albert -- Emotional abuse -- Emotional expression -- Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) -- Empty nest syndrome -- Enculturation -- Endogamy -- Engagement -- Entertainment -- Equalitarian families -- Equality of children -- Erikson, Erik H. -- Eugenics -- Euthanasia -- Exogamy -- Extended families -- Familism -- Family advice columns -- Family albums and records -- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Family businesses -- Family caregiving -- Family: concept and history -- Family counseling -- Family courts -- Family crises -- Family demographics -- Family economics -- Family-friendly programs -- Family gatherings and reunions -- Family History Library -- Family law -- Family life cycle -- Family life education -- Family Protection Act -- Family size -- Family Support Act -- Family therapy -- Family trees -- Family unity -- Family values -- Family Violence Prevention and Services Act -- Father-daughter relationships -- Father figures -- Father-son relationships -- Fatherhood -- Fatherlessness -- Favoritism -- Feminist sociology -- Feminization of poverty -- Fertility and infertility -- Filial responsibility -- Filipino Americans -- Film depictions of families -- Film ratings -- Focus on the Family -- Foodways -- Foster homes -- Freudian psychology -- Friend networks -- Full nest -- Funerals -- Gangs -- Gay and lesbian families -- Gender inequality -- Gender longevity -- Genealogy -- Generation X -- Generational relationships -- Genetic counseling -- Genetic disorders -- Gessell, Arnold L. -- Godparents -- Gomez v. Perez -- Grandparents -- Gray, John -- Grief counseling -- Group marriage -- Guardianship -- Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) -- Haley, Alex -- Hall, G. Stanley -- Head Start -- Health of children -- Health problems -- Heredity -- Hinduism -- Hochschild, Arlie Russell -- Holidays -- Home ownership -- Home schooling -- Home sharing -- Homeless families -- Household -- Hull House -- Human Genome Project -- Hutterites -- Imaginary friends -- In loco parentis -- In re Baby M -- In re Gault -- Incest -- Infanticide -- Inheritance and estate law -- In-laws -- Institutional families -- Interfaith marriages -- Intergenerational income -- Interracial families -- Japanese Americans -- Jews -- Juvenile courts -- Juvenile delinquency -- Kagan, Jerome -- Kinship systems -- Kohlberg, Lawrence -- Korean Americans -- Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth -- Latchkey children --  Lathrop, Julia C. -- Latinos -- Learning disorders -- Least interest principle -- Legal separation -- Life expectancy -- Lineage -- Literature and families -- Living wills -- Love -- Loving v. Virginia -- Lynd, Robert, and Helen Lynd -- McKinney Homeless Assistance Act -- Mail-order brides -- Marital rape -- Marriage -- Marriage counseling -- Marriage laws -- Marriage squeeze -- Marxist critique of the family -- Maslow, Abraham -- Masters, William H., and Virginia E. Johnson -- Matchmaking -- Maternity leave -- Matriarchs -- Matrilineal descent -- Mead, George H. -- Mead, Margaret -- Mealtaking -- Megan’s Law -- Mendenhall, Dorothy Reed -- Mennonites and Amish -- Menopause -- Men’s roles -- Mental health -- Middle Easterners -- Midlife crises -- Military families -- Missing Children’s Assistance Act -- Moiety -- Mommy track -- Monogamy -- Moral education -- Mormon polygamy -- Mormons -- Mother-daughter relationships -- Mother-son relationships -- Motherhood -- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) -- Multiple births -- Murphy, Gardner, and Lois Murphy -- Muslims -- Myths and storytelling -- Names -- Nannies -- National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) -- National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) -- Native Americans -- News media and families -- No-fault divorce -- Nuclear family -- Nursing and convalescent homes -- Older Americans Act (OAA) -- Only children -- Open marriage -- Orphans -- Pacific Islanders -- Parallel cousins -- Parental divorce -- Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA) -- Parenting -- Parents Anonymous (PA) -- Parents Without Partners (PWP) -- Parsons, Elsie -- Paternity suits -- Patriarchs -- Patrilineal descent -- Patrilocality, matrilocality, and neolocality -- Pediatric AIDS -- Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act -- Persons of opposite sex sharing living quarters (POSSLQ) -- Pets -- Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) -- Political families -- Polyandry -- Polygyny -- Pornography -- Postpartum depression -- Poverty -- Pregnancy -- Pregnancy Discrimination Act -- Prenuptial agreements -- Primogeniture -- Prison inmates -- Privacy -- Private schools -- Puberty and adolescence -- Public education -- Quakers -- Quinceañera --  Recovery programs -- Recreation -- Reed v. Reed -- Religion -- Remarriage -- Reproductive technologies -- Retirement -- Retirement communities -- Rites of passage -- Rockwell, Norman -- Roe v. Wade -- Roman Catholics -- Salk, Jonas -- Sandwich generation -- Sanger, Margaret -- Schools -- Second shift -- Senior citizen centers -- Separation anxiety -- Serial monogamy -- Settlement houses -- Sex education -- Sexual revolution -- Sexuality and sexual taboos  -- Shakers -- Sheehy, Gail -- Shelters -- Siblings -- Single life -- Single-parent families -- Skinner, B. F . -- Slavery -- Social capital -- Social Security -- Social workers -- Son preference -- Southeast Asian Americans -- Spock, Benjamin -- Stepfamilies -- Sterilization -- Stranger anxiety -- Straus, Murray -- Substitute caregivers -- Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) -- Suicide -- Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children -- Support groups -- Surrogate mothers -- Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) -- Tax laws -- Teen marriages -- Teen mothers -- Television depictions of families -- Television rating systems -- Test-tube babies -- Time-out -- Toilet training -- Tough love -- Townsend movement -- Tribes -- Twins -- Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA) -- Uniform Marital Property Act (UMPA) -- Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act (UMDA) -- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Unwed fathers -- Vanier Institute of the Family (VIF) -- Vengeance in families -- Vietnamese Americans -- Violence Against Women Act -- Visitation rights -- Volunteerism -- War brides -- Watson, John B. -- Wattleton, Faye -- Wealth -- Weddings -- Welfare -- Widowhood -- Wills and bequests -- Wilson, William G. -- Wisconsin v. Yoder -- Women’s roles -- Work -- Youth sports -- Zablothi v. Redhail -- Zero Population Growth movement -- Important Legislation and Court Decisions -- Time Line -- Support Groups -- Glossary.