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| Studying Families: Micro and Macro Perspectives | |
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| Families, Communities, Society: Interconnections | |
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| What Is a System? | |
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| Families as Small Groups | |
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| The Family as an Institution | |
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| Ecological Systems Perspective | |
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| Diversity Among Families | |
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| Family Structure | |
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| Sex and Gender Differences | |
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| Methods for Studying Families | |
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| Commitment: To Self, Family, Community | |
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| The Importance of Commitment | |
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| Commitment to Self | |
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| Socialization: The Creation of Identities and the Self | |
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| Commitment to Family | |
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| The Big Picture: Commitment to Community | |
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| Developing Close Relationships: Making Lifestyle Choices | |
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| Building Intimate Relationships | |
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| Social and Behavioral Processes That Bring Couples Together | |
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| Lifestyle Choices | |
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| The Big Picture: The Influence of Macrolevel Forces on the Formation of Intimate RelationshipsSex, Sexuality, and Gender Roles | |
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| Maintaining Intimacy: Marriage and Enduring Unions | |
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| Marriage Patterns: Historical Trends and Racial and Social Class Differences | |
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| Transition to Marriage | |
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| Accompanying Marriage | |
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| The Internal Dynamics of Marriage | |
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| The Big Picture | |
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| Moving Through the Life Cycle: Family Experiences in Early to Middle | |
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| Adulthood | |
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| The Transition to Parenthood | |
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| ParentingParenting Changes From Childhood Through Adolescence | |
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| Sibling Relationships in Childhood | |
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| Couple Subsystems | |
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| The Big Picture: Historical Change Affecting Young Families | |
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| Moving Through the Life Cycle: Family Experiences in Middle to Late | |
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| Adulthood | |
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| Renegotiating Parent-Child Relationships in Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood | |
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| Adjusting to the Empty Nest Period | |
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| Parents and Children in Middle to Late Adulthood | |
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| Aged Parents and Adult Children | |
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| Marital Relations in Middle to Late Adulthood | |
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| Adult Sibling Relations | |
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| Grandparenting | |
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| Experiencing the Death of Family Members | |
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| The Big Picture: Societal Influences on Family Relationships Across Adulthood | |
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| Balancing Work and Family | |
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| Labor Force Participation | |
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| Work-Family Spillover | |
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| Household Division of Labor | |
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| Housework in Different Types of Families | |
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| Cohabitation, Marriage, Remarriage, and Housework Contributions | |
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| The Fairness Issue | |
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| Changing Norms: What Has Changed? | |
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| Children's Work | |
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| Effects of Unemployment on the Family | |
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| Retirement | |
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| The Big Picture: Family and Work in the Larger Society Macrosystem | |
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| Family Transitions: Divorce, Single Parenting, Remarriage | |
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| DivorceParenting After Divorce | |
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| Children in Single-Parent Households | |
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| Remarriage and Stepparenting | |
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| Death as the Cause of Marital Dissolution | |
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| The Big Picture: Family Transitions in a Social Context | |
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| Distressed Families: The Darker Side of Family Life | |
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| Partner Violence | |
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| The Demographics of Partner Violence | |
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| Marital RapeViolence Among Same-Sex Couples | |
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| Child Maltreatment | |
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| Abuse of Siblings and Parents | |
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| Elder Abuse and Neglect | |
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| Alcoholism and Substance Addiction | |
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| Children Who Run Away | |
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| If They Are Family, Why Are They Mistreated? | |
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| The Big Picture: The Social and Cultural Context of Violence | |
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| Families in a Social Context: The Big Picture | |
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| Beyond the Family Microsystem | |
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| Governmental Exosystem and Macro-Level Influences | |
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| References | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |