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All our families : new policies for a new century : a report of the Berkeley family forum / edited by Mary Ann Mason, Arlene Skolnick, Stephen D. Sugarman.

Title: All our families : new policies for a new century : a report of the Berkeley family forum / edited by Mary Ann Mason, Arlene Skolnick, Stephen D. Sugarman.
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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xii, 260 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Many people think that American families are disintegrating. These critics often compare today's families with an imagined typical family of the past--stable, middle class, working father, stay-at-home mother, and two or three children. But most American families are not, and never were, like that. Moreover, these critics are often unaware that divorce rates and welfare rolls are down, or that teen pregnancy rates are lower than they were in the 1950s. What are today's families really like? What should society expect of them? What should society do for them? All Our Families, a project of the Berkeley Family Forum, takes a hard look at contemporary families. Chapters include those on divorcing families, single-parent families, step-families, dual-income families, adolescent-parent families, and gay and lesbian families. Distinguished by their exceptional reputations as family scholars, the Forum's interdisciplinary team of authors examines challenges to existing public policies brought on by problems such as custody disputes, family poverty, parental kidnapping, abuse and neglect, and the special psychological conditions faced by today's couples with newborns. The contending claims of biological and psychological parents are exposed and confronted. Essential for courses in sociology, psychology, social work, public policy, and law, All Our Families proposes new policies for strengthening the families of America as we move into the 21st century."--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Also issued online.

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Contents

Single-parent families / Stephen D. Sugarman -- Families started by teenagers / Jane Mauldon -- Children of divorce : a society in search of policy / Judith S. Wallerstein -- The modern American stepfamily : problems and possibilities / Mary Ann Mason -- Gay and lesbian families : queer like us / Judith Stacey -- A sign of family disorder? Changing representations of parental kidnapping / Paula S. Fass -- New families : modern couples as new pioneers / Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan -- Working families : hearth to market / Neil Gilbert -- Abusive and neglecting parents and the care of their children / Richard P. Barth -- Solomon's children : the new biologism, psychological parenthood, attachment theory, and the best interests standard / Arlene Skolnick.

ISBN

0195108310
9780195108316
0195108329
9780195108323

LCCN

97007810

OCLC

36458203
SCSB-10025530

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Harvard Library