Full Description
Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.
Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children's work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in welfare state protection for families
Includes many European, North American and Asian examples written by a team of experts from across five continents
Features coverage of previously neglected groups, including immigrant and transnational families as well as families of gays and lesbians
Demonstrates how studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life across the globe
Extensively reworked from the original Companion published over a decade ago: three-quarters of the material is completely new, and the remainder has been comprehensively updated
Contents
Notes of Contributors viii
Preface xvi
Part I Global Perspectives on Families
1 Family Systems of the World: Are They Converging? 3
Göran Therborn
2 Changing European Families 20
Trude Lappegård
3 American Families: Demographic Trends and Social Class 43
Wendy D. Manning and Susan L. Brown
4 Family Change in East Asia 61
Yen-Chun Cheryl Chen and Jui-Chung Allen Li
5 Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families 83
Irma Arriagada
Part II Diversity, Inequality, and Immigration
6 Same-Sex Families 109
Timothy J. Biblarz, Megan Carroll and Nathaniel Burke
7 Family Poverty 132
Rys Farthing
8 Transnational Families 155
Loretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla and Raelene Wilding
9 Ethnic Diversity in the United Kingdom: Family Forms and Conjugality 176
Alison Shaw
10 Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United States 194
Karen D. Pyke
Part III Family Forms and Family Influences
11 Cohabitation: Recent Research and Implications 217
Rhiannon A. Kroeger and Pamela J. Smock
12 Partnerships, Family, and Personal Configurations 236
Eric D. Widmer
13 Health and Families 255
Deborah Carr, Kristen W. Springer and Kristi Williams
14 Religion and Families 277
Christopher G. Ellison and Xiaohe Xu
Part IV Family Processes
15 Divorce: Trends, Patterns, Causes, and Consequences 303
Juho Härkönen
16 Partner Violence in World Perspective 323
Emily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines and Murray A. Straus
17 Money Management, Gender, and Households 344
Sean R. Lauer and Carrie Yodanis
18 Family Transmission of Social and Cultural Capital 361
Toby L. Parcel and Joshua A. Hendrix
Part V Life Course Perspectives
19 Adult Intergenerational Relationships 385
Matthijs Kalmijn
20 Children's Families: A Child-Centered Perspective 404
Jacqueline Scott
21 Fathers and Fatherhood 424
Kevin M. Roy
22 Aging Families and the Gendered Life Course 444
Phyllis Moen, Jack Lam and Melanie N.G. Jackson
Part VI Families in Context
23 Public Policy and Families 467
Pernilla Tunberger and Wendy Sigle-Rushton
24 Family Policy and Wives' Economic Independence 485
Hadas Mandel
25 Assisted Reproduction, Genetic and Genomic Technologies, and Family Life 508
Martin Richards
26 Sex, Family, and Social Change 52
Judith Treas and Thomas Alan Elliott
27 The Global Chaos of Love: Toward a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Love and Families 547
Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Index 560
