Wider Families
Subtitle: New Traditional Family Forms
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: October 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781560241676
Subjects: Family & relationships; Social networks; Family; Social Science; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Sociology; United States; General; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Interpersonal relations
First sentence: When Marvin Sussman called for presentations on current, cutting edge family issues for his Eastern Sociological Society panel in 1988, one of the outcomes was an exposition on families that did not fit the old conceptual boundaries, families "wider" than kin or marriage.