All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century
All Our Families, a project of the Berkeley Forum on the Family, takes a hard look at contemporary families. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes chapters on divorcing families, single-parent families, step-families, dual-income families, adolescent-parent families, immigrant families, and gay and lesbian families. Distinguished by their exceptional reputations as family scholars, the Forum's interdisciplinary team of authors examines the challenges to existing public...
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All Our Families, a project of the Berkeley Forum on the Family, takes a hard look at contemporary families. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes chapters on divorcing families, single-parent families, step-families, dual-income families, adolescent-parent families, immigrant families, and gay and lesbian families. Distinguished by their exceptional reputations as family scholars, the Forum's interdisciplinary team of authors examines the challenges to existing public policies that are brought on by problems such as custody disputes, family poverty, parental kidnapping, fathers who aren't really fathers, abuse and neglect, and the special psychological conditions faced by today's couples with newborns. The contending claims of biological and psychological parents are also exposed and confronted. Essential for courses in sociology, psychology, social work, public policy, and law, All Our Families, 2/e proposes new policies for strengthening the families of America as we move into the twenty-first century.
PrefaceAuthors1Introduction12Single-Parent Families143Families Started by Teenagers404Children of Divorce: A Society in Search of Policy665The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities966Ambiguous-Father Families1177Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us1448A Sign of Family Disorder? Changing Representations of Parental Kidnapping1709New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers19610Working Families: Hearth to Market22011Immigrant Families24412Abusive and Neglecting Parents and the Care of Their Children26513Solomon's Children: The New Biologism, Psychological Parenthood, Attachment Theory, and the Best Interests Standard285Index306
