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In This Section | |
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Brief | |
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Comprehensive | |
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Brief Table of Contents | |
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Images, Ideals, and Myths | |
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Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form | |
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The Historical Making of Family Diversity | |
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Macro Forces Affecting Families: the Economy, Immigration, and Aging | |
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Class, Race, and Gender | |
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Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family | |
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The Social Construction of Intimacy | |
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Contemporary Marriages | |
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Parents and Children | |
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Violence in Families | |
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Divorce and Remarriage | |
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Emergent Families in the Global Era | |
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Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century | |
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Comprehensive Table of Contents | |
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Images, Ideals, and Myths | |
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Images and Ideals | |
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Family as Haven | |
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Family as Fulfillment | |
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Family as Encumbrance | |
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Images and Reality | |
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The Mythical U.S. Family | |
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The Myth of a Stable and Harmonious Family of the Past | |
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The Myth of Separate Worlds | |
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The Myth of the Monolithic Family Form | |
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The Myth of a Unified Family Experience | |
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The Myth of Family Consensus | |
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The Myth of Family Decline as the Cause of Social Problems | |
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A New Framework for Understanding Families | |
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The Sociological Perspective | |
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The Paradigm Shift in Family Studies | |
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The Structural Diversity Approach | |
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Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form | |
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Family and the New Social History | |
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What Is "New" about Family History? | |
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Overview of Family History Themes | |
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Family Life in Colonial America | |
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Agricultural Communities and Families | |
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Family Structure and Household Composition | |
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Wives and Husbands | |
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Children | |
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The Emergence of Modern Family Life | |
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Industrialization and Families | |
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Agency, Adaptation, and Change | |
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Household Size and Composition | |
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Wives and Husbands | |
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Children | |
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Challenging a Uniform Definition of the Family | |
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The Historical Making of Family Diversity | |
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Industrialization and Family Life | |
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New Work Arrangements | |
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Work and Family in Industrial Society | |
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Accordion Households | |
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Immigration and Family Life | |
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The Social Breakdown Perspective | |
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Industrial Work and Immigrant Families | |
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Racial Control and Family Life | |
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New Thinking about Minority Families | |
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Race, Labor, and Family Life | |
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African American Families in Slavery and Freedom | |
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Chicano Families in the Southwest | |
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The Great Depression and Family Change | |
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Macro Forces Affecting Families: the Economy, Immigration, and Aging | |
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Globalization and the Structural Transformation of the Economy, the Great Recession, and Families | |
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Globalization | |
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Structural Changes in the United States Because of Globalization | |
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The Great Recession (2007-?) | |
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Downward Social Mobility | |
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Shifting Family Forms | |
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The New Immigration and the Changing Racial Landscape | |
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Demographic Trends and Increasing Diversity | |
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Structural Diversity of Immigrant Families | |
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The Effects of Immigration on Immigrant Families | |
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Immigration and Agency | |
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The Effects of Immigration on Family Dynamics | |
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The New Second Generation | |
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The Aging of Society | |
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The Demographics of an Aging Society | |
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The Consequences of an Aging Society on Families and the Elderly | |
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Role Transitions | |
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Responses by the Elderly: Human Agency | |
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The Three Structural Transformations of Society | |
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Class, Race, and Gender | |
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Class, Race, and Gender as Structural Inequalities | |
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Class | |
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The Cultural Approach | |
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The Structural Approach | |
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Race | |
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Racial-Ethnic Families | |
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Structural Inequalities and Racial-Ethnic Families | |
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African American Families in the New Century | |
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Latino Families in the New Century | |
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More Racial Ethnic Diversity in Families: Asians, Native Americans, and Middle Easterners | |
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Human Agency and Family Formation | |
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Gender | |
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The Traditional gender Roles Approach | |
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Shortcomings of the Gender Roles Approach | |
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The Family as a Gendered Institution | |
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Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family | |
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The Changing Work Patterns of Women, Men, and Teens | |
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Women's Employment | |
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Men's Employment | |
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Teens' Employment | |
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Integrating Work and Family | |
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Diverse Work-Family Contexts | |
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Gender Inequality | |
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Work Characteristics | |
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Family Characteristics | |
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Invisible and Unpaid Family Work | |
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Gendered Labor in the Household | |
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Other Forms of Family Work | |
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Coping with Work and Family | |
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Family Coping Strategies | |
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Family-Supportive Government and Employer Responses | |
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The Social Construction of Intimacy | |
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Intimacy in Social Context | |
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Heterosexual Courtship and Mate Selection | |
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Variations in "Dating" Practices | |
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Factors in Mate Selection | |
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Structural Influences on Mate Selection | |
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Changing Sexual Behavior | |
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Society and Sexuality | |
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Enlarging the Sexuality Frame | |
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The Sexual Revolution | |
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Scientific Research on Sexuality | |
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AIDS | |
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Teen Sexuality | |
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Teenage Childbearing | |
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Differentiated Forms of Intimacy | |
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Gendered Love and Sex | |
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Same-Sex Orientation and Intimacy | |
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Social Class and Intimacy | |
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Race and Intimacy | |
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Claiming Control of Intimacy | |
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Contemporary Marriages | |
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Marriage: Private and Public Spheres | |
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The Private Nature of Marriage | |
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Macro Influences on Marriage | |
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Recent Trends | |
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Unmarried Adults | |
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Age at First Marriage | |
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Family Size | |
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Interracial or Interethnic Marriages | |
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Racial or Ethnic Mixed Marriages | |
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Life Span and Marriage | |
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Are There Benefits to Marriage? | |
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The Benefits of Marriage | |
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The Benefits of Marriage Reconsidered | |
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Micro Aspects of Marriage | |
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Marital Success | |
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Communication in Marriage | |
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The Sexual Relationship in Marriage | |
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Power and Decision Making in 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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Parents and Children | |
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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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Fertility | |
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Voluntary Childlessness | |
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Infertility and New Technologies | |
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Delayed Childbearing | |
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Family Composition | |
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The Impact of Children on Marriage | |
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The Transition to Parenthood | |
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The Benefits of Parenthood | |
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The Costs of Parenthood | |
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Gendered Parenting | |
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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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Parental Time with Children | |
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Family Structure | |
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Extrafamilial Factors | |
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Parents and Children in Dual-Earner Families | |
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Maternal Employment and Time with Children | |
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Social Supports for Working Parents | |
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Single Parents and Their Children | |
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Reprise: the Duality of Parenting | |
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Violence in Families | |
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Families in a Violent Society | |
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U.S. Violence Rates in Comparative Perspective | |
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Institutionally Sanctioned Violence | |
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Violence in the Media | |
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Customs and Beliefs | |
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Violence and the Social Organization of the Family | |
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Intimate Partner Violence | |
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Violence Against Women | |
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Contexts for Intimate Partner Violence | |
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Types of Partner Violence | |
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Does She Leave or Stay? | |
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Domestic Violence in Same-Sex Relationships | |
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Child Abuse and Neglect | |
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What Is Child Abuse? | |
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Incidence of Child Abuse | |
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Contexts for Child Abuse | |
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Consequences of Child Abuse | |
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Incest | |
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Incidence of Incest | |
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Explanations for Incest | |
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Consequences of Incest | |
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Sibling Abuse | |
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Battered Elders | |
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What Is Elder Abuse? | |
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Incidence of Elder Abuse | |
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Contexts for Elder Abuse | |
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Macro and Micro Linkages | |
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Agency | |
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The Women's Movement | |
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The Battered Women's Shelter Movement | |
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Assessing Progress | |
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Divorce and Remarriage | |
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Divorce Rates | |
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Trends in Divorce | |
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Factors Correlated with Divorce | |
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Predicting the Divorce Rate: Up or Down? | |
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The Prediction of a Declining or Leveling of the Divorce Rate | |
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The Prediction of a Rising Divorce Rate | |
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The Consequences of Divorce for Spouses and Children | |
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"His" Divorce | |
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"Her" Divorce | |
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Adjustment after Divorce for Ex-Spouses | |
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Children and Divorce | |
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Remarriage after Divorce | |
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Statistical Facts about Remarriage | |
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The Uniqueness of Remarriage | |
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The Outcomes for Stepchildren | |
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The Special Case of Remarriage among the Elderly | |
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The Politics of Divorce | |
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Is Marriage a Failed Institution? | |
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Emergent Families in the Global Era | |
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The Rise in New Family Arrangements | |
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Families in Transition | |
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The Global Revolution in Family Life | |
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How to Think about Family Diversification | |
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Single Life | |
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The Singles Population | |
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Gender, Race, and Class | |
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Experiencing Single Life | |
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Heterosexual Cohabitation | |
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The Rise of Cohabitation | |
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Who Are Cohabitors? | |
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Gender, Class, and Race | |
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Is Cohabitation a Prelude to Marriage or a Substitute for Marriage? | |
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Same-Sex Partners and Families | |
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Who Is Gay and What Are Gay Families? | |
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Gay Couples and Families | |
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A Shifting Social Context for Same-Sex Partners | |
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The Domestic Partner Movement | |
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Families Separated by Time and Space | |
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Transnational Families | |
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Commuter Marriages and Other Long-Distance Relationships | |
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Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century | |
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The Ideological Fault Lines | |
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The Conservatives | |
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The Progressives | |
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The Government's Limits on the Definition of Marriage | |
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The Government and Reproductive Rights | |
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Contraceptives | |
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Abortion | |
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Welfare | |
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The Shrinking Welfare State | |
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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA of 1996) | |
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Is Welfare Reform Working? An Assessment after Ten Years | |
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The Conservative Solution: Marriage | |
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The Progressive Solution: A Stronger Safety Net | |
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Working Parents | |
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Parental Leave | |
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Child Care | |
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Work-Related Policies and Gender Inequality | |
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Meeting the Needs of Disadvantaged Children | |
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Poor Children at Risk | |
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The Societal Response to Disadvantaged Children | |
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Funding Programs to Help Disadvantaged Children | |
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Principles to Guide Family Policy: An Immodest Proposal | |