Handbook of contemporary families
Subtitle: considering the past, contemplating the future
By: editors Marilyn Coleman, Lawrence H. Ganong
Contributors: Coleman, Marilyn; Ganong, Lawrence H
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 622
Subjects: Family -- United States; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Household diversity : the starting point for healthy families in the new century / John Scanzoni; title: Alternate lifestyles today : off the family studies screen / Roger H. Rubin; title: The social & cultural construction of American childhood / Steven Mintz; title: Cohabitation and family change / Judith A. Seltzer; title: Variations in marriage over time : an ecological/exchange perspective / Ronald M. Sabatelli, Karen Ripoll; title: Gay men & lesbians : the family context / Lawrence A. Kurdek; title: Ambiguous constructions : development of a childless or child-free life course / Richard Bulcroft, Jay Teachman; title: Intimate relationships in later life : current realities, future prospects / Teresa M. Cooney, Kathleen Dunne; title: Jobs, marriage & parenting : working it out in dual-earner families / Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Elizabeth Turner; title: Gendered family relations : the more things change, the more they stay the same / Lori A. McGraw, Alexis J. Walker; title: Feminist visions for transforming families : desire & equality then & now / Katherine R. Allen; title: Encountering oppositions : a review of scholarship about motherhood / Susan Walzer; title: Fathering : paradoxes, contradictions & dilemmas / Scott Coltrane; title: Pathogenic-conflict families & children : what we know, what we need to know / W. Glenn Clingempeel, Eulalee Brand-Clingempeel; title: Divorce in social & historical context : changing scientific perspectives on children & marital dissolution / Paul R. Amato; title: Single-parent families : risks, resilience & change / Michele T. Martin, Robert E. Emery, Tara S. Peris; title: Britain's changing families / Graham Allan, Sheila Hawker, Graham Crow; title: Stepfamilies : changes & challenges / Kay Pasley, Brad S. Moorfield; title: Continuing research on Latino families : el pasado y el futuro / Linda Citlali Halgunseth; title: Diversity in African American families : trends & projections / M. Belinda Tucker, Saskia K. Subramanian, Angela D. James; title: Asian American families : diverse history, contemporary trends & the future / Masako Ishii-Kuntz; title: A "seven-generation" approach to American Indian families / Walter T. Kawamoto, Tamara C. Cheshire; title: Muslim families in the United States / Bahira Sherif-Trask; title: Families & religious beliefs, practices & communities : linkages in a diverse & dynamic cultural context / David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks, Michael A. Goodman; title: Family law for changing families in the new millennium / Mary Ann Mason, Mark A. Fine, Sarah Carnochan; title: Building enduring family policies in the 21st century : the past as prologue? / Karen Bogenschneider, Tom Corbett; title: The disturbing paradox of poverty in American families : what we have learned over the past four decades / Mark R. Rank; title: Brave new families : modern health technologies & family creation / Dianne M. Bartels; title: Understanding the effects of the Internet on family life / Robert Hughes, Jr., Jason D. Hans; title: Family therapy's response to family diversity : looking back, looking forward / Leigh A. Leslie, Goldie Morton; title: Contemporary family life education : thirty years of challenge & progress / Deborah B. Gentry