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| Preface | |
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| Images, Ideals, and Myths | |
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| Images and Ideals | |
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| Images and Reality | |
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| The Mythical American Family | |
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| A New Framework for Understanding Families | |
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| Additional Features of This Book | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form | |
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| Myths and Realities | |
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| Family and the New Social History | |
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| Family Life in Colonial America | |
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| The Emergence of Modern Family Life | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| The Historical Making of Family Diversity | |
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| Myths and Realities | |
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| Industrialization and Family Life | |
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| Immigration and Family Life | |
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| Racial Control and Family Life | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Economic and Demographic Upheavals in Society and Family Formation | |
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| Myths and Realities | |
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| Globalization and the Structural Transformation of the Economy and Families | |
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| The New Immigration and the Changing Racial Landscape | |
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| The Aging of Society | |
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| The Three Structural Transformations of Society | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Class, Race, and Gender | |
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| Myths and Realities | |
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| Class, Race, and Gender as Structured Inequalities | |
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| Class | |
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| Race | |
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| Gender | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family | |
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| Myths and Realities | |
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| The Changing Work Patterns of Women, Men, and Teens | |
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| Integrating Work and Family | |
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| Invisible and Unpaid Family Work | |
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| Coping with Work and Family | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| The Social Construction of Intimacy | |
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| Myths and Realities | |
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| Heterosexual Courtship and Mate Selection | |
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| Changing Sexual Behavior | |
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| Differentiated Forms of Intimacy | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Contemporary Marriages | |
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| Myths and Realities | |
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| Marriage: Private and Public Spheres | |
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| Recent Trends | |
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| Are There Benefits to Marriage? | |
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| Micro Aspects of Marriage | |
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| Reconstructing Gender Roles: Building an Egalitarian Marriage | |
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| The Future of Marriage: Changing or Dying? | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Parents and Children | |
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| Myths and Realities | |
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| The Social Construction of Parenting | |
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| The Social Construction of Childhood | |
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| Demographic Patterns | |
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| The Impact of Children on Marriage | |
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| The Impact of Parents on Children and of Children on Parents | |
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| The Structure of the Family Embedded in a Larger Network of Influences | |
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| Parents and Children in Dual-Earner Families | |
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| Single Parents and Their Children | |
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| Reprise: The Duality of Parenting | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Violence in Families | |
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| Myths and Realities | |
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| Families in a Violent Society | |
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| Intimate Partner Violence | |
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| Child Abuse and Neglect | |
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| Incest | |
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| Sibling Abuse | |
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| Battered Elders | |
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| Macro and Micro Linkages | |
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| Agency | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Divorce and Remarriage | |
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| Myths and Realties | |
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| Divorce Rates | |
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| Predicting the Divorce Rate: Up or Down? | |
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| The Consequences of Divorce for Spouses and Children | |
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| Remarriage after Divorce | |
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| The Politics of Divorce | |
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| Is Marriage a Failed Institution? | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Emergent Families in the Global Era | |
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| Myths and Realities | |
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| The Rise in New Family Arrangements | |
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| Single Life | |
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| Heterosexual Cohabitation | |
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| Same-Sex Partners and Families | |
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| Families Separated by Time and Space | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| Related Web Sites | |
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| Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century | |