Table of Contents

Notes of Contributors viii


Preface xvi


PART I GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIES


1 Family Systems of the World: Are They Converging? 3

Göran Therborn


2 Changing European Families 20

Trude Lappegård


3 American Families: Demographic Trends and Social Class
43

Wendy D. Manning and Susan L. Brown


4 Family Change in East Asia 61

Yen-Chun Cheryl Chen and Jui-Chung Allen Li


5 Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families 83

Irma Arriagada


PART II DIVERSITY, INEQUALITY, AND IMMIGRATION


6 Same-Sex Families 109

Timothy J. Biblarz, Megan Carroll and Nathaniel Burke


7 Family Poverty 132

Rys Farthing


8 Transnational Families 155

Loretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla and
Raelene Wilding


9 Ethnic Diversity in the United Kingdom: Family Forms and
Conjugality 176

Alison Shawnts


10 Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United
States 194

Karen D. Pyke


PART III FAMILY FORMS AND FAMILY INFLUENCES


11 Cohabitation: Recent Research and Implications 217

Rhiannon A. Kroeger and Pamela J. Smock


12 Partnerships, Family, and Personal Configurations 236

Eric D. Widmer


13 Health and Families 255

Deborah Carr, Kristen W. Springer and Kristi Williams


14 Religion and Families 277

Christopher G. Ellison and Xiaohe Xu


PART IV FAMILY PROCESSES


15 Divorce: Trends, Patterns, Causes, and Consequences 303

Juho Härkönen


16 Partner Violence in World Perspective 323

Emily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines and Murray A. Straus


17 Money Management, Gender, and Households 344

Sean R. Lauer and Carrie Yodanis


18 Family Transmission of Social and Cultural Capital 361

Toby L. Parcel and Joshua A. Hendrix


PART V LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVES


19 Adult Intergenerational Relationships 385

Matthijs Kalmijn


20 Children?s Families: A Child-Centered Perspective
404

Jacqueline Scott


21 Fathers and Fatherhood 424

Kevin M. Roy


22 Aging Families and the Gendered Life Course 444

Phyllis Moen, Jack Lam and Melanie N.G. Jackson


Part VI Families in Context



23 Public Policy and Families 467

Pernilla Tunberger and Wendy Sigle-Rushton


24 Family Policy and Wives? Economic Independence
485

Hadas Mandel


25 Assisted Reproduction, Genetic and Genomic Technologies, and
Family Life 508

Martin Richards


26 Sex, Family, and Social Change 527

Judith Treas and Thomas Alan Elliott


27 The Global Chaos of Love: Toward a Cosmopolitan Turn in the
Sociology of Love and Families 547

Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim


Index 560

About the Author

Judith Treas is Professor of Sociology and Director ofthe Center for Demographic and Social Analysis at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine. Her latest book, edited with SonjaDrobnie, is Dividing the Domestic: Women, Men and HouseholdWork in Cross-National Perspective (2010). Jacqueline Scott is Professor of Empirical Sociology inthe Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and InternationalStudies, and a Fellow of Queens College, University ofCambridge. Dr Scott is the editor of Gender Inequalities in the21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints (withRosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette, 2010) and Women andEmployment: Changing Lives and New Challenges (with Shirley Dexand Heather Joshi, 2009). Martin Richards is Emeritus Professor of FamilyRessearch, Centre for Family Research, University ofCambridge. His recent books include ReproductiveDonation: Practice, Policy and Bioethics (edited with GuidoPennings and John B. Appleby, 2012) and We areFamily?Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction: Families, Origins andIdentitie (edited with Tabitha Freeman, Fatemeh Ebtehaj, andSusanna Graham, 2014).

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