Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future / Edition 1

by Marilyn Coleman, Lawrence Ganong

Overview

The Handbook of Contemporary Families explores how families have changed in the last 30 years and speculates about future trends. Editors Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong, along with a multidisciplinary group of contributors, critique the approaches used to study relationships and families while suggesting modern approaches for the new millennium. The Handbook looks at how changes within the contemporary family have been reflected in family law, family education, and family therapy.

The Handbook of Contemporary Families is an excellent resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, educators, and practitioners who study and work with families in several disciplines, including Family Science, Human Development and Family Studies, Sociology, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Social Work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761927136
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/15/2003
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marilyn Coleman, Ed D, is a curators’ distinguished professor emerita of Human Development and Family Science at the University of Missouri (United States). She is also an affiliate faculty member with women’s and gender studies at the University of Missouri and a fellow in the MU Center for Excellence on Aging and the MU Center for Family Policy and Research. She is a fellow in the National Council on Family Relations. She has conducted research on stepfamilies for more than 35 years. Her recent work with Lawrence H. Ganong has focused on (a) intergenerational family responsibilities following divorce and remarriage and (b) the development, maintenance, and dissolution of steprelationships over time. He and Ganong have co-authored over 220 articles and book chapters as well as nine books. She was the second female editor of the leading family journal in the world, Journal of Marriage and Family, from 1992 to 1996, and has been either an associate editor or on the Editorial Board of six additional journals.

Lawrence Ganong, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Human Development and Family Science and Nursing at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has co-authored over 310 journal articles and chapters and 10 books and has received 12 grants from public and private institutions. Ganong’s research program has focused on how post-divorce families, particularly stepfamilies, develop and maintain satisfying and effective relationships. Ganong is a Fellow in the National Council on Family Relations and the Gerontological Society of America. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Council on Family Relations, the Council on Contemporary Families, and The Stepfamily Association of America.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: CONSIDERING THE PAST, CONTEMPLATING THE FUTURE
1. Household Diversity: The Starting Point for Healthy Families in the New Century - John Scanzoni
2. Alternate Lifestyles Today: Off the Family Studies Screen - Roger H. Rubin
3. The Social & Cultural Construction of American Childhood - Steven Mintz
PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY COUPLES
4. Cohabitation & Family Change - Judith Seltzer
5. An Ecological/Exchange Perspective on Recent Marital Trends - Ronald Sabatelli & Karen Ripoll
6. Gay Men & Lesbian Couples: The Family Context - Larry Kurdek
7. Ambiguous Constructions: Development of a Childless or Childfree Life Course - Richard Bulcroft & Jay Teachman
8. Intimate Relationships in Later Life: Current Realities, Future Prospects - Teresa Cooney & Kathleen Dunne
PART THREE: GENDER ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES
9. Jobs, Marriage, & Parenting: Working it Out in Dual-Earner Families - Maureen Perry Jenkins & Elizabeth Turner
10. Gender in Families: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same - Lori A. Mc Graw & Alexis Walker
11. Feminist Visions for Transforming Families: Desire & Equality Then & Now - Katherine Allen
PART FOUR: RAISING CHILDREN IN CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES
12. Encountering Oppositions: A Review of Motherhood - Susan Walzer
13. Fathering: Paradoxes, Contradictions, & Dilemmas - Scott Coltrane
14. Pathogenic Conflict Families & Children: What We Know, What We Need to Know - William Glenn Clingempeel & Eulalee Brand-Clingempeel
PART FIVE: CHANGING FAMILY STRUCTURES
15. To Have & Have Not: Marriage & Divorce in the United States - Paul Amato
16. Children & Parents in Single Parent Families: Risk, Resilience, & Change - Michele Tuer Martin, Robert Emery, & Tara S. Peris
17. Britain's Changing Families - Graham Allan, Sheila Hawker, & Graham Crow
18. Stepfamilies: Changes & Challenges - Kay Pasley & Brad S. Moorefield Kay Pasley & Brad S. Moorefield Kay Pasley & Brad S. Moorefield Kay Pasley & Brad S. Moorefield
PART SIX: RACE & ETHNICITY IN CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES
19. Continuing Research on Latino Families: El pasado y el futuro - Linda Citlali Halgunseth
20. Diversity In African American Families: Trends & Projections - Belinda Tucker, Saskia K. Subramanian, & Angela James
21. Asian American Families: Diverse History, Contemporary Trends, & the Future - Masako Ishii-Kuntz
22. A 'Seven Generation' Approach to American Indian Families - Walter T. Kawamoto & Tamara C. Cheshire
23. Muslim Families in the United States - Bahira Sherif-Trask
PART SEVEN: FAMILIES IN SOCIETY
24. Families & Religious Beliefs, Practices, & Communities: Linkages in a Diverse & Dynamic Cultural Context - David C. Dollahite, Loren Marks, & Michael Goodman
25. Family Law For Changing Families - Mary Ann Mason, Sarah Carnochan, & Mark A. Fine
26. Building Enduring Family Policies in the 21st Century - Karen Bogenschneider & Tom Corbett
27. The Disturbing Paradox of Poverty Amidst American Families: What We Have Learned Over the Past Four Decades - Mark Rank
PART EIGHT: TECHNOLOGY & CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES
28. Brave New Families: Modern Health Technology & Family Creation - Dianne Bartels
29. Understanding the Effects of the Internet 29. Understanding the Effects of the Internet, by Robert Hughes, Jr. &Jason D. Hans 29. Understanding the Effects of the Internet - Robert Hughes, Jr. & Jason D. Hans
PART NINE: WORKING WITH CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES
30. Family Therapy in Response to Family Diversity: Looking Back, Looking Forward - Leigh Leslie & Goldie Morton
31. Contemporary Family Life Education: Thirty Years of Challenge & Progress - Deborah Gentry

Editorial Reviews

"This useful handbook brings together many of the most important new findings and provocative ideas about America’s diverse and changing families. An excellent resource. "

Stephanie Coontz

"Marilyn Coleman and Larry Ganong have produced a comprehensive handbook exploring the changes and challenges confronting contemporary families. The chapters, written by some of the most distinguished social scientists studying families, give a balanced research-based analysis of some of the most contentious issues of our time."

E. Mavis Hetherington

"Coleman and Ganong recruited an outstanding group of scholars to contribute to the Handbook of Contemporary Families. Authors represent a wide array of disciplines, and the topics touch on every aspect of family life. The organization of the book is excellent and the writing of high quality. Scholars and students alike will find the book a valuable resource."

Alan Booth