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Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.
JUDITH TREAS is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demographic and Social Analysis at the University of California, Irvine. Her previous book, edited with Sonja Drobnič, is Dividing the Domestic: Men, Women and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective (2010).
JACQUELINE SCOTT is Professor of Empirical Sociology in the Faculty of Human, Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College. Her recent edited books include Gendered Lives: Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction (with Shirley Dex and Anke Plagnol, 2012); Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints (with Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette, 2010); and Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges (with Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi, 2009).
MARTIN RICHARDS is Emeritus Professor of Family Research, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge. His recent books include Reproductive Donation: Practice, Policy and Bioethics (edited with Guido Pennings and John B. Appleby, 2012), and We Are Family? Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction: Families, Origins and Identities (edited with Tabitha Freeman, Fatemeh Ebtehaj, and Susanna Graham, 2014).
Notes of Contributors viii
Preface xvi
Part I Global Perspectives on Families
1 Family Systems of the World: Are They Converging? 3Göran Therborn
2 Changing European Families 20Trude Lappegård
3 American Families: Demographic Trends and Social Class 43Wendy D. Manning and Susan L. Brown
4 Family Change in East Asia 61Yen-Chun Cheryl Chen and Jui-Chung Allen Li
5 Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families 83Irma Arriagada
Part II Diversity, Inequality, and Immigration
6 Same-Sex Families 109Timothy J. Biblarz, Megan Carroll and Nathaniel Burke
7 Family Poverty 132Rys Farthing
8 Transnational Families 155Loretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla and Raelene Wilding
9 Ethnic Diversity in the United Kingdom: Family Forms and Conjugality 176Alison Shaw
10 Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United States 194Karen D. Pyke
Part III Family Forms and Family Influences
11 Cohabitation: Recent Research and Implications 217Rhiannon A. Kroeger and Pamela J. Smock
12 Partnerships, Family, and Personal Configurations 236Eric D. Widmer
13 Health and Families 255Deborah Carr, Kristen W. Springer and Kristi Williams
14 Religion and Families 277Christopher G. Ellison and Xiaohe Xu
Part IV Family Processes
15 Divorce: Trends, Patterns, Causes, and Consequences 303Juho Härkönen
16 Partner Violence in World Perspective 323Emily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines and Murray A. Straus
17 Money Management, Gender, and Households 344Sean R. Lauer and Carrie Yodanis
18 Family Transmission of Social and Cultural Capital 361Toby L. Parcel and Joshua A. Hendrix
Part V Life Course Perspectives
19 Adult Intergenerational Relationships 385Matthijs Kalmijn
20 Children’s Families: A Child-Centered Perspective 404Jacqueline Scott
21 Fathers and Fatherhood 424Kevin M. Roy
22 Aging Families and the Gendered Life Course 444Phyllis Moen, Jack Lam and Melanie N.G. Jackson
Part VI Families in Context
23 Public Policy and Families 467Pernilla Tunberger and Wendy Sigle-Rushton
24 Family Policy and Wives’ Economic Independence 485Hadas Mandel
25 Assisted Reproduction, Genetic and Genomic Technologies, and Family Life 508Martin Richards
26 Sex, Family, and Social Change 52Judith Treas and Thomas Alan Elliott
27 The Global Chaos of Love: Toward a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Love and Families 547Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Index 560
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