Public and Private Families: A Reader

by Cherlin, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780073404363
• ISBN10: 0073404365
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-30
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This reader examines the family through two lenses--the familiar private family, in which we live our personal lives, and the public family, in which we deal with broader societal issues, such as raising the next generation, and the care of the elderly. Consequently, these readings look both at intimate, personal concerns, such as whether to marry, as well as societal concerns, such as governmental policies that affect families. The reader corresponds exactly to and is published concurrent with Cherlin's textbookPublic and Private Families: An Introduction; both the textbook and the reader have 14 chapters of the same names.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. viii
Introduction
Public and Private Families	p. 3
The Family in Trouble: Since When? For Whom?	p. 5
From Role to Self: The Emergence of Androgynous Love in the 20th Century	p. 16
The History of the Family	p. 31
What's Love Got to Do with It? A Brief History of Marriage	p. 32
Growing Up Is Harder to Do	p. 38
Gender, Class, and Race-Ethnicity
Gender and Families	p. 47
Doing Gender	p. 49
Fathers and Emotional Responsibility	p. 59
Social Class and Families	p. 70
Ain't No Middle Class	p. 72
Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families	p. 85
Race, Ethnicity, and Families	p. 108
"I'm Here, but I'm There": The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood	p. 110
Breaking the Last Taboo: Interracial Marriage in America	p. 124
Sexuality, Partnership, and Marriage
Sexualities	p. 133
Sexual Desire and Gender	p. 134
Living Apart Together: A New Family Form	p. 142
Cohabitation and Marriage	p. 155
"Everything's There Except Money": How Money Shapes Decisions to Marry among Cohabitors	p. 157
Unmarried with Children	p. 169
Work and Families	p. 176
The Work-Home Crunch	p. 178
Joey's Problem: Nancy and Evan Holt	p. 186
Links across the Generations
Children and Parents	p. 203
Religion and the Domestication of Men	p. 204
Gay Parenthood and the Decline of Paternity as we Knew It	p. 208
Older People and their Families	p. 223
Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Increasing Importance of Multigenerational Bonds	p. 225
Men and Women: Together and Apart in the Later Years	p. 236
Conflict, Disruption, and Reconstitution
Domestic Violence	p. 261
Control and Violence in Intimate Relationships	p. 263
Controversies Surrounding Mandatory Arrest Policies and the Police Response to Intimate Partner Violence	p. 275
Divorce	p. 282
Life without Father: What Happens to the Children?	p. 283
Children's Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives	p. 287
StepFamilies	p. 295
The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities	p. 297
Beyond the Two-Parent Family: How Teenagers Fare in Cohabiting Couple and Blended Families	p. 308
Family and Society
The Family, The State, and Social Policy	p. 317
American Dream: Money: Milwaukee, Summer 1999	p. 319
Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Parenting, and America's Children	p. 327
References	p. 339
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