Family in Transition

by Skolnick, Arlene S.; Skolnick, Jerome H.

• ISBN13: 9780205351046
• ISBN10: 0205351042
• Edition: 12th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

This classic reader on families and intimate relationships identifies the most current trends, places them in historical context, and balances cutting-edge scholarship with perennial favorites.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: Family in Transition	1	(14)
PART ONE The Changing Family	15	(76)
Families Past and Present	17	(23)
``The Global Revolution in Family and Personal Life''	17	(6)
Anthony Giddens
``The Life Course Revolution''	23	(8)
Arlene Skolnick
``What We Really Miss about the 1950s''	31	(9)
Stephanie Coontz
Public Debates and Private Lives	40	(51)
``The Mommy Wars: Ambivalence, Ideological Work, and the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood''	40	(17)
Sharon Hays
``Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views''	57	(19)
Janet Z. Giele
``Family Law in the New Millennium: For Whose Families?''	76	(15)
Mary Ann Mason
Mark A. Fine
Sarah Carnochan
PART TWO The Sexes	91	(124)
Changing Gender Roles	95	(34)
``Destined for Equality''	95	(8)
Robert M. Jackson
``Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field''	103	(12)
Kathleen Gerson
``Men's Family Work: Child-Centered Fathering and the Sharing of Domestic Labor''	115	(14)
Scott Coltrane
Michele Adams
Sexuality and Society	129	(14)
``Raging Hormones, Regulated Love: Adolescent Sexuality in the United States and the Netherlands''	129	(5)
Amy T. Schalet
``Premarital Sex before the `Sexual Revolution''	134	(9)
Julia Ericksen
Sally A. Steffen
Courtship and Marriage	143	(35)
``Dating Scripts Revisited''	143	(9)
Mary Riege Laner
Nicole A. Ventrone
``Modern Marriage: From Meal `Ticket to Best Friend''	152	(9)
Paula Kamen
``Few Good Men: Why Poor Mothers Stay Single''	161	(10)
Kathryn Edin
``The Future of Marriage''	171	(7)
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.
Divorce and Remarriage	178	(37)
``Divorce Culture: A Quest for Relational Equality in Marriage''	178	(12)
Karla B. Hackstaff
``The Consequences of Divorce for Adults and Children''	190	(25)
Paul R. Amato
PART THREE Parents and Children	215	(84)
Parenthood	218	(45)
``Becoming a Parent''	218	(13)
Carolyn P. Cowan
Phillip A. Cowan
``A Typology of Approaches to Child Care: The Centerpiece of Organizing Family Life for Dual-Earner Couples''	231	(24)
Rosanna Hertz
``Transracial and Open Adoption: New Forms of Family Relationships''	255	(8)
Mary Lyndon Shanley
Childhood	263	(36)
``Revolutions in Children's Lives''	263	(10)
Donald Hernandez
David E. Myers
``What Children Think about Their Working Parents''	273	(11)
Ellen Galinsky
``Going to Extremes: Family Structure, Children's Well-Being, and Social Science''	284	(15)
Andrew J. Cherlin
PART FOUR Families in Society	299
Work and Family	303
``Families on the Fault Line''	303
Lillian B. Rubin
``Family Values against the Odds''	320
Katherine S. Newman
``The Family and Part-Time Work''	335
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Carroll Seron
Bonnie Oglensky
Robert Saute
``Changing the Structure and Culture of Work: Work and Family Conflict, Work Flexibility, and Gender Equity in the Modern Workplace''	349
Kathleen Gerson
Jerry A. Jacobs
Dimensions of Diversity	365
``Diversity within African American Families''	365
Ronald L. Taylor
``Diversity within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science''	389
Maxine Baca Zinn
Barbara Wells
``Reinventing the Family''	415
Laura Benkov
``The Normal American Family' as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants''	436
Karen Pyke
``Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Increasing Importance of Multigenerational Bonds''	457
Vern L. Bengtson
Trouble in the Family	479
``Why Do They Do It?''	479
Kristin Luker
``Research on Domestic Violence in the 1990s: Making Distinctions''	493
Michael P Johnson
Kathleen J. Ferraro