Full Description
Headlines from news sources are combined with the latest and best social science research to offer scholars, practitioners, and parents a much-needed source for understanding contemporary American parenthood.
News and social media headlines abound with contradictory stories about parents, from tales of neglect to fear of helicopter parenting. What readers know about parenting and parenthood can stem from misinformation and oversimplification.
In Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood, a wide variety of contributors share research on topics ranging from international adoption to technology to talking with children about racial issues. Scholars, students, parents, and practitioners alike will find that this book breaks new ground in terms of its timely approach, its spotlight on current topics, and its attention to thinking through exaggerated and conflicting media claims about contemporary parenting. Importantly, the book focuses on both parenting, the lived experiences of parents, and parenthood, the social and cultural construction of parenthood in today's world, making it a resource for those interested in the truth of the everyday lives of American parents.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction
Michelle Janning xi
Part One
Changing Patterns in Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood
Chapter 1 Helicopter Parents: A New Moral Panic? 3
Margaret K. Nelson
Chapter 2 World's Okayest Mom: The Adaptive Management Parent 31
Valerie Adrian
Chapter 3 The Changing Landscape of Parent-Adult Child Relations 51
Joshua Coleman
Chapter 4 Parenthood in the Age of Apps and Mommy Blogs:Technology and Digital Culture in Parent-Child
Relations 67
Michelle Y. Janning
Chapter 5 Parenthood and Mental Health in the United States: Why Don't Children Improve Adults' Emotional Well-Being? 90
Robin W. Simon
Part Two
Work, Family, and Leisure for Parents
Chapter 6 Parental Leave Programs: What Do We Know about Designing Good Policies? 119
Ankita Patnaik
Chapter 7 The Promise and Limits of Work-Family Supports in a Shifting Policy Landscape: A Double Bind for Working Mothers in Western Germany 141
Caitlyn Collins
Chapter 8 Parenthood and Leisure Time Disparities 168
Liana Sayer
Part Three Inequalities
Chapter 9 Understanding Inequality: Children, Consumer Culture, and the Empathy Framework 199
Allison J. Pugh
Chapter 10 Do We Talk about Race/Ethnicity with our Children or Not? Variations in Parental Ethnic-Racial Socialization Strategies 216
Erin Pahlke
Chapter 11 What Do Visas Have to Do with Parenting? Middle-Class Dependent Visa Holders and Transcultural Parenting 237
Pallavi Banerjee
Chapter 12 Lost in Detention and Deportation—"Found" through Foster Care and Adoption: Reviewing the Tensions
between Family Building and Human Rights in the United States 258
Pamela Anne Quiroz
Chapter 13 Child Well-Being in Same-Gender-Parent Families: Courts, Media, and Social Science Research 283
Marshal Neal Fettro and Wendy D. Manning
Chapter 14 Reproducing Family: How Parents Accept Their LGB Children's "Good" Families 302
Taylor Field Quiroga
Conclusion 323
About the Editor and Contributors 327
Index 331
