Changing Family Values
Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include:\ * the recent backlash against single mothers\ * lesbian and gay families and...
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Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include:* the recent backlash against single mothers* lesbian and gay families and the law* men's changing roles within the family* the future of the nuclear family.This book is ideal for courses covering the family, a central topic in sociology and women's studies.
Notes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: changing family values11End of century, end of family?: shifting discourses of family 'crisis'172Men, heterosexuality and the changing family: (re)constructing fatherhood in law and social policy383Will boys be left on the shelf?594Lesbian and gay families: legal perspectives775Poor choices?: gender, agency and the underclass debate986'Family values' and Conservative government policy: 1979-971197Family values and the nation-state1368Unpicking political communitarianism: a critique of 'the communitarian family'1509From modern nuclear family households to postmodern diversity? The sociological construction of 'families'16510Virtual social science and the politics of family values in the United States185Name index206Subject index211
