Preface |
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Introduction |
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PART ONE The Changing Family |
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Families Past and Present |
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14 | (45) |
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The Theoretical Importance of the Family |
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14 | (12) |
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The Global Revolution in Family and Personal Life |
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26 | (6) |
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The Life Course Revolution |
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32 | (8) |
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Changes in the Demographics of Families over the Course of American History |
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40 | (19) |
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Public Debates and Private Lives |
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59 | (46) |
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The Mommy Wars: Ambivalence, Ideological Work, and the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood |
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59 | (17) |
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Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views |
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76 | (19) |
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Why Do Gays Want to Marry? |
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95 | (10) |
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105 | (136) |
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109 | (20) |
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109 | (8) |
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Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field |
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117 | (12) |
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129 | (22) |
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Raging Hormones, Regulated Love: Adolescent Sexuality in the United States and the Netherlands |
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129 | (5) |
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134 | (17) |
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151 | (37) |
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The Decline of the Date and the Rise of the College Hook Up |
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151 | (11) |
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Grounds for Marriage: How Relationships Succeed or Fail |
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162 | (10) |
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172 | (10) |
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182 | (6) |
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Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. |
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188 | (53) |
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Divorce Culture: A Quest for Relational Equality in Marriage |
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188 | (12) |
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Children's Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives |
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200 | (23) |
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The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities |
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223 | (18) |
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PART THREE Parents and Children |
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241 | (84) |
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244 | (47) |
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New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers |
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244 | (20) |
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Caring for Our Young: Child Care in Europe and the United States |
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264 | (8) |
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Who Are Our Children? Adoption, Past and Present |
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272 | (10) |
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The Four Facets of Fatherhood |
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282 | (9) |
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291 | (34) |
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Beyond Sentimentality: American Childhood as a Social and Cultural Construct |
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291 | (13) |
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What Children Think about Their Working Parents |
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304 | (11) |
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How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations |
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315 | (10) |
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PART FOUR Families in Society |
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325 | (187) |
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329 | (31) |
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Family Values against the Odds |
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329 | (14) |
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The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home |
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343 | (7) |
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350 | (10) |
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360 | (38) |
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Families on the Fault Line |
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360 | (17) |
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The Economy That Never Sleeps |
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377 | (7) |
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Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke |
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384 | (14) |
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398 | (93) |
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Diversity within African American Families |
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398 | (24) |
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Diversity within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science |
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422 | (26) |
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Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us |
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448 | (21) |
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``The Normal American Family'' as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants |
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469 | (22) |
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491 | (21) |
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Prisoners' Families and Children |
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491 | (14) |
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505 | (7) |
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Issues in the Definition of Family Violence and Abuse |
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