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Table of Contents:

• pt. 1 Considering the past, contemplating the future : Household diversity : the starting point for healthy families in the new century / John Scanzoni
• Alternate lifestyles today : off the family studies screen / Roger H. Rubin
• The social and cultural construction of American childhood / Steven Mintz.
• pt. 2 Contemporary couples : Cohabitation and family change / Judith A. Seltzer
• Variations in marriage over time : an ecological/exchange perspective / Ronald M. Sabatelli, Karen Ripoll
• Gay men & lesbians : the family context / Lawrence A. Kurdek
• Ambiguous constructions : development of a childless or child-free life course / Richard Bulcroft, Jay Teachman
• Intimate relationships in later life : current realities, future prospects / Teresa M. Cooney, Kathleen Dunne.
• pt. 3 Gender issues in contemporary families : Jobs, marriage and parenting : working it out in dual-earner families / Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Elizabeth Turner
• Gendered family relations : the more things change, the more they stay the same / Lori A. McGraw, Alexis J. Walker
• Feminist visions for transforming families : desire and equality then and now / Katherine R. Allen.
• pt. 4 Raising children in contemporary families : Encountering oppositions : a review of scholarship about motherhood / Susan Walzer
• Fathering : paradoxes, contradictions and dilemmas / Scott Coltrane
• Pathogenic-conflict families and children : what we know, what we need to know / W. Glenn Clingempeel, Eulalee Brand-Clingempeel.
• pt. 5 Changing family structures : Divorce in social and historical context : changing scientific perspectives on children and marital dissolution / Paul R. Amato
• Single-parent families : risks, resilience and change / Michele T. Martin, Robert E. Emery, Tara S. Peris
• Britain's changing families / Graham Allan, Sheila Hawker, Graham Crow
• Stepfamilies : changes and challenges / Kay Pasley, Brad S. Moorefield.
• pt. 6 Race and ethnicity in contemporary families : Continuing research on Latino families : el pasado y el futuro / Linda Citlali Halgunseth
• Diversity in African American families : trends and projections / M. Belinda Tucker, Saskia K. Subramanian, Angela D. James

• Asian American families : diverse history, contemporary trends, and the future / Masako Ishii-Kuntz
• A "seven-generation" approach to American Indian families / Walter T. Kawamoto, Tamara C. Cheshire
• Muslim families in the United States / Bahira Sherif-Trask.
• pt. 7 Families in society : Families and religious beliefs, practices, and communities : linkages in a diverse and dynamic cultural context / David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks, Michael A. Goodman
• Family law for changing families in the new millennium / Mary Ann Mason, Mark A. Fine, Sarah Carnochan
• Building enduring family policies in the 21st century : the past as prologue? / Karen Bogenschneider, Tom Corbett
• The disturbing paradox of poverty in American families : what we have learned over the past four decades / Mark R. Rank.
• pt. 8 Technology and contemporary families : Brave new families : modern health technologies and family creation / Dianne M. Bartels
• Understanding the effects of the Internet on family life / Robert Hughes, Jr., Jason D. Hans.
• pt. 9 Working with contemporary families : Family therapy's response to family diversity : looking back, looking forward / Leigh A. Leslie, Goldie Morton
• Contemporary family life education : thirty years of challenge and progress / Deborah B. Gentry.

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Contributors:

Coleman, Marilyn

Ganong, Lawrence H.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Families — United States

Cultural pluralism — United States

Families

Cultural pluralism

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Physical Description:

xiii, 622 pages ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

HQ536 .H3185 2004

ISBNs:

0761927131 (alk. paper)
9780761927136 (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2003015932

OCLC Numbers:

52687962