Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future

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Marilyn Coleman, Lawrence H Ganong
SAGE, 2004 - 622 páginas
The Handbook of Contemporary Families explores how families have changed in the last 30 years and speculates about future trends. Editors Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence H. Ganong, along with a multidisciplinary group of contributors, critique the approaches used to study relationships and families while suggesting modern approaches for the new millennium. The Handbook looks at how changes within the contemporary family have been reflected in family law, family education, and family therapy.

The Handbook of Contemporary Families is an excellent resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, educators, and practitioners who study and work with families in several disciplines, including Family Science, Human Development and Family Studies, Sociology, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Social Work.

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Off the Family Studies Screen
23
The Social and Cultural Construction
36
Cohabitation and Family Change
57
An Ecological
79
The Family Context
96
Development
116
Current Realities
136
GENDER ISSUES
153
Diverse
369
A SevenGeneration Approach to American Indian Families
385
Muslim Families in the United States
394
Families and Religious Beliefs
411
Family Law for Changing Families in the New Millenium
432
Building Enduring Family Policies
451
The Disturbing Paradox of Poverty in American
469
TECHNOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY
491

RAISING CHILDREN
207
Paradoxes Contradictions and Dilemmas
224
Risks Resilience and Change
282
Britains Changing Families
302
Changes and Challenges
317
RACE AND ETHNICITY
331
Trends and Projections
352
Understanding the Effects of the Internet on Family Life
506
WORKING WITH CONTEMPORARY
521
Author Index
555
Subject Index
583
About the Editors
611
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Lawrence Ganong, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Human Development and Family Science and Nursing at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has co-authored over 310 journal articles and chapters and 10 books and has received 12 grants from public and private institutions. Ganong's research program has focused on how post-divorce families, particularly stepfamilies, develop and maintain satisfying and effective relationships. Ganong is a Fellow in the National Council on Family Relations and the Gerontological Society of America. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Council on Family Relations, the Council on Contemporary Families, and The Stepfamily Association of America.

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