The encyclopedia of marriage, divorce, and the family
By: Margaret DiCanio.
Publisher: Facts on File
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 607
Subjects: Marriage -- Encyclopedias; Family -- Encyclopedias; Divorce -- Encyclopedias
Notes: Bibliography: p. [559]-590.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: LIST OF ENTRIES:; title: Abdicate -- Aborticants -- Abortion: aftercare procedures -- Abortion: marital status, age, race, prior abortions, stage of pregnancy -- Abortion: notification of father -- Abortion: two-drug combination alternative to surgery -- Abortion: world view -- Abortion and men -- Abortion in Canada -- Absentee mother -- Acrimony of ex-spouses -- Addicted babies -- Addiction -- Adolescence -- Adolescent stress -- Adoption -- Adoption: domestic -- Adoption: foreign -- Adoption: independent -- Adoption exchanges -- Adoption procedure -- Adoption scarcity -- Adoptive child’s grief at being given away -- Adoptive parent organizations -- Adult life stages -- AIDS: impact on sexual behavior -- AIDS: implications for sexual partners and families -- Alcoholics: child -- Alcoholics: children of -- Alcoholics: families of -- Alcoholism -- Alcoholism: stages of -- Alimony -- American family history -- Amniocentesis -- Amnion -- Apgar score -- Arranged marriage -- Artificial insemination -- Baby boomers -- “Baby Doe” controversy: treatment of newborns with dire birth defects -- Bachelor -- Bereavement and grief -- Biological time clock -- Birth control -- Birth defects -- Birth defects ranking by location -- Birth order -- Birth sites -- Bisexual spouse -- Black families -- Blood alcohol concentration -- Boarder babies -- Body size and western cultural ideals -- Bonding: mother – infant -- Bradley husband-coached prepared childbirth -- Breast-feeding -- Broken home -- Caesarean section -- Care-givers -- Celibacy -- Child abuse -- Child abuse statistics and concerns in Canada -- Child advocacy -- Child-centered household -- Child labor -- Child pornography -- Child rearing -- Child support -- Child support award formulas -- Child support: out of state collection -- Child support enforcement: state offices -- Childbirth anxieties -- Childhood -- Childhood depression -- Childless by choice (antinatalism) -- Child-proofing -- Children’s rights during divorce -- Child’s impact upon a couple’s relationship -- Choosing a neighborhood -- Cocaine abuse -- Cohabitation -- Common-law marriage -- Community property -- Companionship -- Consanguinity -- Consent of biological parent to adoption -- Contraceptive ratings  -- Corporal punishment -- Couples -- Court: family -- Court intervention to protect the unborn -- Courtship -- Credit rating -- Cult movement impact on families -- Cultural time clock -- Custody -- Custody challenge -- Cystic fibrosis -- Day care -- Death: explaining to children -- Death and dying: ethical issues -- Death education -- Death of a child -- Death of a parent -- Death of a sibling -- Death’s impact upon a family -- Delivery date of expected baby -- Dick-Read method of prepared childbirth -- Disabled children: family life with -- Disabled children: future after parent’s death -- Disabled parents: family life with -- Disappearance of childhood -- Discontinuous work patterns for women -- Displaced homemaker -- Divorce: aftermath of -- Divorce: do-it-yourself -- Divorce: grounds for -- Divorce: history -- Divorce: social factors -- Divorce: termination of marriage by court decree -- Divorce: time dimensions of -- Divorce mediation -- Domestic homicide in Canada -- Domestic violence -- Dower, curtesy and elective state -- Down’s syndrome -- Drug abuse -- Dual-career marriages -- Eating disorders -- Education: business involvement -- Education: kindergarten -- Education: parental involvement -- Education: women -- Egalitarian marriage -- Elderly alcoholics -- Elders: health care issues -- Elders: work continuance -- Embryo -- Empty nest refilled: returning home to live -- Engagement -- Enoch Arden Doctrine --  Episiotomy -- Exercise: impact on fertility -- Exogamy and endogamy -- Failed pregnancies -- Failure to thrive -- Families: parentless -- Family -- Family: multi-parent -- Family allowances in Canada -- Family as an oppressive institution for women -- Family courts: position in the court system -- Family-courts violence -- Family formation: changing patterns -- Family forms -- Family law -- Family violence perspectives -- Fast food: impact upon families -- Fatherhood -- Fear of commitment -- Fecundity and fertility -- Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974 -- Feminine mystique -- Fetal rights and personhood -- Fetal treatment before birth -- Fetoscopy -- Fetus -- First-home financing -- Flextime -- Foster care -- Foster families -- Fratricide -- Friends as family -- Funerals -- Funerals: home -- Gender research -- Genetic counseling -- Gentrification -- Gestation -- Get : traditional Jewish divorce -- Gifted children -- Good genes concept -- Grandparents -- Group living -- Guardians for minor children in the event of parent’s death -- Head start -- High-risk mothers and babies -- High-risk pregnancy -- Home -- Home-buying stages -- Homeless Families -- Homemaker’s economic value -- Home schooling -- Homestead exemption -- Homosexuality: family lifestyle -- Homosexuality: impact on family of origin -- Honeymoon: changing customs -- Hospice movement -- Housing: affordability and shortage -- Housing: psychology of -- Hunger and malnutrition -- Hysterectomy -- Illegal immigrants and their families -- Illegitimate birth -- illiteracy -- Incest taboo -- Inclusionary housing -- Infant language -- Infant psychiatry -- Infant sleeping location controversy -- Infanticide -- Infatuation -- Infertility -- Inheritance rules -- In-law relationships -- Intermarriage -- Interracial marriage -- Intimate relationships -- Joint custody and split custody -- Ketuba -- Kitzinger method of prepared childbirth -- Labor and delivery stages -- La Leche League -- Lamaze method of prepared childbirth -- Lead poisoning of children -- Leboyer’s concept of gentle birth -- Legal rights of children -- Living wills and the right to die -- Loneliness -- Long-term health care -- Love: romantic -- Love: styles of  -- Love as an idea -- Mandatory reporting law -- Marriage and family counseling -- Marriage contract -- Marriage gradient -- Marriage name -- Marriage of convenience -- Marriage rate and divorce rate in North America -- Marriage squeeze -- Mate as best friend -- Mate selection -- Maternal ambivalence -- Maternity bill -- Maternity leave in Canada -- Maternity leave in the United States -- Matrilocal, patrilocal or neolocal residence -- Media as role model for individuals and families -- Median age at first marriage -- Men’s studies -- Miscarriage -- Monogamy -- Mortality rate -- Mother surrogate -- Motherhood -- Names in marriage and divorce -- Nannies -- Neighborhood parent -- Nepotism -- Neural tube defects -- Nonsupport of children: criminal remedy -- Obstetrical crisis -- Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) -- Orphans -- Palimony -- Parent-child relationship -- Parent locater service -- Parental conflict with adolescents -- Parental kidnapping -- Parental leave -- Parental pressure on small children -- Parenting -- Parenting styles -- Parents Anonymous -- Parents Without Partners -- Parricide -- Paternity acknowledgement or establishment -- Planned Parenthood Federation of America -- Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada -- Politics: interrelationship with family -- Population policies: global -- Pornography -- Post-divorce guilt -- Postpartum depression -- Poverty: perpetuation of -- Preadoptive placement -- Preconception assessment -- Preconception hazards -- Pregnancy -- Premature babies -- Prepared childbirth -- Primogeniture -- Psychological parent -- Psychology of abortion -- Puberty rites -- Quickening -- Relocation -- Remarriage -- Reproductive capacity of women -- Reproductive cycle of men -- Reproductive cycle of women -- Reproductive symbolism -- Reproductive technology -- Resilient children -- Rising expectations of  families and individuals -- Role models for 20th century family members -- Role research -- Roommate living -- Rules of descent and webs of kinship -- Rules of residence -- Runaway adults -- Runaway children -- Self-help movement -- Separation and/or divorce agreement -- Serial monogamy -- Setpoint theory of weight control -- Sex education -- Sex ratio -- Sex roles -- Sexual abuse of children -- Sexual abuse of children: politics of -- Sexual counseling -- Sexual harassment -- Sexually transmitted disease -- Shared child-care roles -- Sibling rivalry -- Sick-days child care for employed parents -- Sickle-cell screening for newborns -- Single parent adoptions -- Single parent / lone parent families -- Singles meeting grounds -- Singles personal ads and other formats for finding a mate -- Singles scene -- Social order and American families --  Social pressure to marry -- Socioeconomic class and family change -- Special-needs children: changing views -- Spinster -- Spouse abuse -- Stepfamilies -- Street children -- Sudden infant death syndrome -- Supermom -- Support systems -- Suttee -- Swaddling -- Sweat equity -- Tanistry -- Teenage pregnancy -- Teenage suicide -- Temperament, behavioral styles in children -- Termination of a marriage -- Throwaway children -- Toilet training -- Touching in infancy -- Twins -- Ultrasonography -- Uniform Parentage Act -- Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA) -- Unisex policies -- Validation function of marriage and family -- Virginity -- Waiting period to marry -- Wedding cancellation -- Wedding customs -- Wedding planning and scheduling -- Weddings --  Welfare reform -- Whiplash shaken baby syndrome -- Widowhood -- Wife battering -- Women, discontinuous work patterns for -- Women alcoholics -- Women and work -- Women politicians: women’s equality versus family needs -- Working mother’s support groups -- Yuppies -- Zero population growth.