All Our Families New Policies for a New Century

Name: All Our Families New Policies for a New Century
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ISBN: 9780195148817

ISBN-10: 0195148819

ISBN-13: 9780195148817

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

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

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All Our Families, a project of the Berkeley Forum on the Family, takes a hard look at contemporary families. The book challenges the conventional wisdom that American families are disintegrating. Its essays argue that comparing today's families to an imagined typical family of the past--stable, middle class, working father, stay-at-home mother, and two or three children--is dishonest and misleading. Most American families are not, and never were like that. In contrast, All Our Families considers seriously all of today's types of families, not just the "ideal" ones or the "failures." In this second edition, the editors have revised existing chapters and added three new chapters on…

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List price: $99.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/7/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Authors



Introduction




Single-Parent Families




Families Started by Teenagers




Children of Divorce: A Society in Search of Policy




The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities




Ambiguous-Father Families




Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us




A Sign of Family Disorder? Changing Representations of Parental Kidnapping




New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers




Working Families: Hearth to Market




Immigrant Families




Abusive and Neglecting Parents and the Care of Their Children




Solomon's Children: The New Biologism, Psychological Parenthood, Attachment Theory, and the Best Interests Standard