Family in Transition

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

• ISBN13: 9780205482658
• ISBN10: 0205482651
• Edition: 14th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

This bestselling 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	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
PART ONE The Changing Family	11	(94)
Families Past and Present	14	(45)
The Theoretical Importance of the Family	14	(12)
William J. Goode
The Global Revolution in Family and Personal Life	26	(6)
Anthony Giddens
The Life Course Revolution	32	(8)
Arlene Skolnick
Changes in the Demographics of Families over the Course of American History	40	(19)
Donald J. Hernandez
Public Debates and Private Lives	59	(46)
The Mommy Wars: Ambivalence, Ideological Work, and the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood	59	(17)
Sharon Hays
Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views	76	(19)
Janet Z. Giele
Why Do Gays Want to Marry?	95	(10)
George Chauncey
PART TWO Sex and Gender	105	(136)
Changing Gender Roles	109	(20)
Destined for Equality	109	(8)
Robert M. Jackson
Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field	117	(12)
Kathleen Gerson
Sexuality and Society	129	(22)
Raging Hormones, Regulated Love: Adolescent Sexuality in the United States and the Netherlands	129	(5)
Amy T. Schalet
Sexual Revolution(s)	134	(17)
Beth Bailey
Courtship and Marriage	151	(37)
The Decline of the Date and the Rise of the College Hook Up	151	(11)
Paula England
Reuben J. Thomas
Grounds for Marriage: How Relationships Succeed or Fail	162	(10)
Arlene Skolnick
Cohabitation	172	(10)
Lynne M. Casper
Suzanne M. Bianchi
Can Marriage Be Saved?	182	(6)
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.
Divorce and Remarriage	188	(53)
Divorce Culture: A Quest for Relational Equality in Marriage	188	(12)
Karla B. Hackstaff
Children's Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives	200	(23)
Joan B. Kelly
Robert E. Emery
The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities	223	(18)
Mary Ann Mason
PART THREE Parents and Children	241	(84)
Parenthood	244	(47)
New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers	244	(20)
Philip Cowan
Carolyn Pape Cowan
Caring for Our Young: Child Care in Europe and the United States	264	(8)
Dan Clawson
Naomi Gerstel
Who Are Our Children? Adoption, Past and Present	272	(10)
Lawrence Friedman
The Four Facets of Fatherhood	282	(9)
Nicholas Townsend
Childhood	291	(34)
Beyond Sentimentality: American Childhood as a Social and Cultural Construct	291	(13)
Steven Mintz
What Children Think about Their Working Parents	304	(11)
Ellen Galinsky
How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations	315	(10)
Vern L. Bengston
Timothy J. Biblarz
Robert E. L. Roberts
PART FOUR Families in Society	325	(187)
Work and Family Life	329	(31)
Family Values against the Odds	329	(14)
Katherine S. Newman
The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home	343	(7)
Arlie Hochschild
Anne Machung
The Work-Home Crunch	350	(10)
Kathleen Gerson
Jerry A. Jacobs
Family and the Economy	360	(38)
Families on the Fault Line	360	(17)
Lillian B. Rubin
The Economy That Never Sleeps	377	(7)
Harriet B. Presser
Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke	384	(14)
Elizabeth Warren
Amelia Warren Tyagi
Dimensions of Diversity	398	(93)
Diversity within African American Families	398	(24)
Ronald L. Taylor
Diversity within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science	422	(26)
Maxine Baca Zinn
Barbara Wells
Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us	448	(21)
Judith Stacey
``The Normal American Family'' as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants	469	(22)
Karen Pyke
Trouble in the Family	491	(21)
Prisoners' Families and Children	491	(14)
Jeremy Travis
Unmarried with Children	505	(7)
Kathryn Edin
Maria Kefalas
Issues in the Definition of Family Violence and Abuse	512
Denise A. Hines
Kathleen Malley-Morrison