The Emergence of Family into the 21st Century

by Munhall, Patricia L.

• ISBN13: 9780763711054
• ISBN10: 0763711055
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett

Summary

Current realities and future possibilities for family life are explored in this unique interdisciplinary collection of papers.  the Emergence of Family into the 21st Century is an offering of views and contrasts, complicities and vagaries, analyses and recollections.    Through understanding the complexities of family, both the good And The bad, The contributors to this narrative begin to give us an agenda from which to contribute to programs that encourage life-enhancing, peaceful, loving, free, and liberated families. There are three titles in the Emergence series: The Emergence of Women into the 21st Century  (ISBN: 0887376622) the Emergence of Family into the 21st Century  (ISBN: 0763711055) the Emergence of Man into the 21st Century  (ISBN: 0763711721)

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Preface	vi
Introduction	xi
Voices One: Situating the Family in Time	1	(36)
Families on the Brink, on the Edge	3	(14)
Lynne Hektor Dunphy
Isolating the Phenomenon of Family	17	(10)
Florence G. Sitelman
Robert Sitelman
Which Story Shall We Tell?	27	(10)
Maureen Duffy
Marilyn Leeds
Voices Two: Understanding Families	37	(48)
Mother's Day	37	(2)
Patricia Munhall
How Family Scientists Study Families: Eight Theoretical Study Frameworks	39	(18)
Hilary A. Rose
A Psychologist Reflects on the Family	57	(6)
Dennis R. Finger
The Politics of the Family	63	(10)
Susan L. Folden
Preparing Modern Practitioners for Postmodern Families	73	(12)
Sherry Hartman
Voices Three: Family Rituals	85	(22)
My Love at 53	85	(4)
Carolyn Brown
Food and My Family	89	(12)
Joan DiPasquale Davis
The Wedding: The Triumph of Hope over Experience	101	(6)
Lynne Hektor Dunphy
Voices Four: Constructing a Family	107	(46)
After all	107	(2)
Daniel Collins
A Single Woman Adopts Catherine	109	(8)
Claudia Hauri
Through the Eyes of Catherine at 7	117	(6)
Catherine Hauri
Reflections on Becoming and Being a Mother	123	(8)
Sarah Selen Steen Lauterbach
Becoming a Man in a Gay Family: Dialogue and Reflections	131	(8)
Edward M. Freeman
A Normal Family: From the Perspective of a 21-Year-Old Man	139	(8)
Daniel Collins
The Future of the Family: From the Perspective of a 21-Year-Old Woman	147	(6)
Christine Fitzsimons
Voices Five: Attempting to Grow a Family	153	(22)
Regret	153	(1)
Connie Vance
A Want Unfulfilled	153	(2)
Patricia Munhall
Infertility: A Neon Light	155	(10)
Linda Gonzalez
The Quest for an Alternative Family: Confessions of a Child-Free Lesbian	165	(10)
Gabnella Rosetti
Voices Six: Families Grieving	175	(40)
Yesterdays and Tomorrows	175	(2)
JoAnn McKay
Wind Beneath my Wings	177	(1)
JoAnn McKay
The Gift	178	(1)
JoAnn McKay
Suzanne	179	(1)
JoAnn McKay
Long ago	180	(1)
By Amanda
Timeless Wounds	180	(1)
Patricia Munhall
Dedicated to My Tommy: Give Sorrow Words	181	(12)
Katherine Parry
The Holocaust Revisited: Protecting Our Families	193	(22)
Ellen Goldschmidt Ehrlich
Voices Seven: Families Bearing Challenges	215	(48)
The Impact of AIDS on the Family	217	(20)
Sande Garcia Jones
Patricia Messmer
Shadow Families	237	(12)
Carolyn L. Brown
Patricia M. Siccardi
A Family in Divorce, as Told by Sheila	249	(8)
Sheila J. Hopkins
Housing for the Single-Parent Family: A Blueprint for Women's Educational Support	257	(6)
Judith Mathews
Maureen Hreha
Marilyn Burk
Voices Eight: Families Living with Violence	263	(28)
Killing Spirits	263	(2)
Patricia Munhall
Domestic Violence: A Loss of Selfhood	265	(8)
Evelyn Ortner
Through the Distance: Living as an Object of Anger	273	(12)
Julie M. Evertz
Cancer of Violence: Power Differentials and Family Values	285	(6)
Patricia L. Munhall
Voices Nine: Reflecting on Family in the 21st Century	291	(44)
Apples and Oranges (Conversation with Mom, #2)	291	(2)
kimberly jones
The American Way through Hazel Eyes: A Look at the Caribbean Black Family	293	(12)
Sandra E. Gibson
The Aging Society: Fulcrum for the New Century	305	(10)
Virginia Macken Fitzsimons
www.sex.family	315	(10)
Shelley Green
From Snow White to Esmerelda: A Mother-Daughter Conversation in Three Generations	325	(10)
Anne Hearon Rambo
Shelby Hearon
Rachel Shelby Rambo
Index	335