Research Catalog

Title

Changing Britain : families and households in the 1990s / edited by Susan McRae.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

McRae, Susan.

Description

xxi, 487 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Families > Great Britain
• Single-parent families > Great Britain
• Unmarried couples > Great Britain
• Stepfamilies > Great Britain
• Living alone > Great Britain
• Kinship > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-473) and index.

Contents

Introduction: family and household change in Britain / Susan McRae -- Britain's place in Europe's population / David Coleman and Tarani Chandola -- Family change: revolution or backlash in attitudes? / Jacqueline Scott -- Forecasting British families into the twenty-first century / Mike Murphy and Duolao Wang -- Kinship and friendship: attitudes and behaviour in Britain, 1986-1995 / Francis McGlone, Alison Park, and Ceridwen Roberts -- Living away from relatives: kinship and geographical reasoning / Jennifer Mason -- The transnational character of Caribbean kinship in Britain / Harry Goulborne -- Intergenerational perspectives on family and household change in mid- and later life in England and Wales / Emily Grundy -- Older people in three urban areas: household composition, kinship, and social networks / Chris Phillipson ... [et al.] -- The impact of family change on older people: the case of stepfamilies / Joanna Bornat ... [et al.] -- Living alone: evidence from England and Wales and France for the last two decades / Ray Hall, Philip E. Ogden, and Catherine Hill -- Families of choice: autonomy and mutuality in non-heterosexual relationships / Jeffrey Weeks, Brian Heaphy, and Catherine Donovan -- Family influences on teenage fertility / Kaye Wellings and Jane Wadsworth -- Teenage mothers: decisions and outcomes / Isobel Allen and Shirley Bourke Dowling -- Becoming a single mother / Richard Berthoud, Stephen McKay, and Karen Rowlingson -- Who divorces? / Kathleen Kiernan and Ganka Mueller -- Non-resident fathers in Britain / Jonathan Bradshaw ... [et al.] -- The residential mobility of divorced people / Robin Flowerdew, Alaa Al-Hamad, and Lynn Hayes.

Call Number

JFE 00-3821

ISBN

• 0198296363
• 0198296371 (pbk.)

LCCN

99024527

OCLC

40964929

Title

Changing Britain : families and households in the 1990s / edited by Susan McRae.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-473) and index.

Added Author

McRae, Susan.

Research Call Number

JFE 00-3821