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Understanding Families: Critical Thinking and Analysis
ISBN-10: 0-205-35262-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-205-35262-3
Published by Prentice Hall
© 2004
Pub. Date: Apr 3, 2003
Format: Paper
Description
Understanding Families collects the most contemporary data on American families, such as fertility rates, the health and welfare of children in families, or the impact of dual worker parents on family life.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Introduction.
1. Is the Family Universal? International Family Comparisons.
2. Whom Do We Marry: Marriage and the Norm of Endogamy in the United States.
3. Be Fruitful and Multiply: American Fertility Patterns.
4. Children in America: Child Centered or Child Forgotten.
5. Little Boys and Girls: The Changing Nature of Gender.
6. Divorce: The End of the Affair.
7. Family Violence: Lost Innocence.
8. Singlehood: I'd Rather Not, Thank You Anyway.
9. Cohabitation: A Modern Variation of Marriage?
10. Working Women: Why Aren't They in the Kitchen?
11. Dual-Worker Families: This Is Your Life!
12. Single Parenting: I Can't Be in Three Places at the Same Time.
13. The Aged Population: The Emergence of Grandparenting.
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- Understanding Families: Critical Thinking and Analysis
William Egelman | ©2004 | Paper; 144 pages - Marriages and Families, 2nd Edition
Constance L. Shehan | ©2003 | Paper; 554 pages
