All Our Families New Policies for a New Century

Name: All Our Families New Policies for a New Century
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ISBN: 9780195108323

ISBN-10: 0195108329

ISBN-13: 9780195108323

Edition: 1998

Authors: Mary Ann Mason, Arlene Skolnick, Stephen D. Sugarman

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Many people think that American families are disintegrating. These critics often compare today's families with an imagined typical family of the past -- stable, middle class, working father, stay-at-home mother, and two or three children. But most American families are not, and never were, like that. Moreover, these critics are often unaware that divorce rates and welfare rolls are down, or that teen pregnancy rates are lower than they were in the 1950s. What are today's families really like? What should society expect of them? What should society do for them? All Our Families, a project of the Berkeley Forum on the Family, takes a hard look at contemporary families. Chapters include those…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/26/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

PrefaceAuthors1. Mary Ann Mason, Arlene Skolnick, and Stephen D. Sugarman: Introduction2. Stephen D. Sugarmann: Single-Parent Families3. Jane Mauldon: Families Started by Teenagers4. Judith S. Wallerstein: Children of Divorce: A Society in Search of Policy5. Mary Ann Mason: The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities6. Judith Stacey: Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us7. Paula Fass: A Sign of Family Disorder? Changing Representations of ParentalKidnapping8. Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan: New Families: Modern Couples as NewPioneers9. Neil Gilbert: Working Families: Hearth to Market10. Richard P. Barth: Abusive and Neglecting Parents and the Care of theChildren11.…