All Our Families
New Policies for a New Century
2nd Edition
Published on 12. December 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
322 pages
978-0-19-514881-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 inter-racial families, immigrant families, and extended families.
In this second edition, the editors have revised existing chapters and added three new chapters on inter-racial families, immigrant families, and extended families.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
491 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-514881-7 (9780195148817)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1. Introduction by Mary Ann Mason, Arlene Skolnick, and Stephen D. Sugarman ; 2. Single Parent Families by Stephen D. Sugarman ; 3. Families Started by Teenagers by Jane Mauldon ; 4. Children of Divorce: A Society in Search of Policy by Judith S. Wallerstein ; 5. The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities by Mary Ann Mason ; 6. Ambiguous-Father Families by Ira Mark Ellman ; 7. Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us by Judith Stacey ; 8. A Sign of Family Disorder? Changing Representations of Parental Kidnapping by Paula S. Fass ; 9. New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers by Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan ; 10. Working Families: Hearth to Market by Neil Gilbert ; 11. Immigrant Families by Sylvia Guendelman ; 12. Abusive and Neglecting Parents and the Care of Their Children by Richard P. Barth ; 13. Solomon's Children: The New Biologism, Psychological Parenthood, Attachment Theory, and the Best Interests Standard by Arlene Skolnick