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9780465090921

The Way We Really Are Coming To Terms With America's Changing Families

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  • ISBN13:

    9780465090921

  • ISBN10:

    0465090923

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-05-09
  • Publisher: BASIC BOOKS

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Summary

Stephanie Coontz, the author ofThe Way We Never Were,now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today's familythe demonizing of "untraditional" family forms and marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while it's not crazy to miss the more hopeful economic trends of the 1950s and 1960s, few would want to go back to the gender roles and race relations of those years. Mothers are going to remain in the workforce, family diversity is here to stay, and the nuclear family can no longer handle all the responsibilities of elder care and childrearing.Coontz gives a balanced account of how these changes affect families, both positively and negatively, but she rejects the notion that the new diversity is a sentence of doom. Every family has distinctive resources and special vulnerabilities, and there are ways to help each one build on its strengths and minimize its weaknesses.The book provides a meticulously researched, balanced account showing why a historically informed perspective on family life can be as much help to people in sorting through family issues as going into therapyand much more help than listening to today's political debates.

Author Biography

Stephanie Coontz is a member of the faculty of Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, where she is a historian and an expert on American culture.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
Getting Past the Sound Bites: How History and Sociology Can Help Today's Familiesp. 11
What We Really Miss about the 1950sp. 33
Why Working Mothers Are Here to Stayp. 51
The Future of Marriagep. 77
Putting Divorce in Perspectivep. 97
How Holding on to Tradition Sets Families Backp. 109
Looking for Someone to Blame: Families and Economic Changep. 123
How Ignoring Historical and Societal Change Puts Kids at Riskp. 141
Working with What We'Ve Got: the Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Today's Familiesp. 157
Acknowledgmentsp. 179
Notesp. 181
Indexp. 229
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