Includes bibliographical references and index. New Book -- December -- 2015
Contents:
Family Systems of the World : Are They Converging? / Göran Therborn -- Changing European Families / Trude Lappegård -- American Families : Demographic Trends and Social Class / Wendy D. Manning and Susan L. Brown -- Family Change in East Asia / Yen-Chun Cheryl Chen and Jui-Chung Allen Li -- Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families / Irma Arriagada -- Same-Sex Families / Timothy J. Biblarz, Megan Carroll and Nathaniel Burke -- Family Poverty / Rys Farthing -- Transnational Families / Loretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla and Raelene Wilding -- Ethnic Diversity in the United Kingdom : Family Forms and Conjugality / Alison Shaw -- Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United States / Karen D. Pyke -- Cohabitation : Recent Research and Implications / Rhiannon A. Kroeger and Pamela J. Smock -- Partnerships, Family, and Personal Configurations / Eric D. Widmer -- Health and Families / Deborah Carr, Kristen W. Springer and Kristi Williams -- Religion and Families / Christopher G. Ellison and Xiaohe Xu -- Divorce : Trends, Patterns, Causes, and Consequences / Juho Härkönen -- Partner Violence in World Perspective / Emily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines and Murray A. Straus -- Money Management, Gender, and Households / Sean R. Lauer and Carrie Yodanis -- Family Transmission of Social and Cultural Capital / Toby L. Parcel and Joshua A. Hendrix -- Adult Intergenerational Relationships / Matthijs Kalmijn -- Children's Families : A Child-Centered Perspective / Jacqueline Scott -- Fathers and Fatherhood / Kevin M. Roy -- Aging Families and the Gendered Life Course / Phyllis Moen, Jack Lam and Melanie N.G. Jackson -- Public Policy and Families / Pernilla Tunberger and Wendy Sigle-Rushton -- Family Policy and Wives' Economic Independence / Hadas Mandel -- Assisted Reproduction, Genetic and Genomic Technologies, and Family Life / Martin Richards -- Sex, Family, and Social Change / Judith Treas and Thomas Alan Elliott -- The Global Chaos of Love : Toward a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Love and Families / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim.
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