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Families as they really are
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
[2015]
Language
English
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From the Book - Second edition.
Springing forward from the past: an introduction / Barbara J. Risman and Virginia E. Rutter
One thousand and forty-nine reasons why it's hard to know when a fact is a fact / Andrew J. Cherlin
When is a relationship between facts a causal one? / Philip A. Cowan
Uncovering hidden facts that matter in interpreting individuals' behaviors: an ethnographic lens / Linda M. Burton
CCF brief: the trouble with averages: the impact of major life events and acute stress may not be what you think / Anthony D. Mancini and George A. Bonanno
In the news: when numbers mislead / New York Times
The evolution of American families / Stephanie Coontz
American childhood as a social and cultural construct / Steven Mintz
In the news: a "golden age" of childhood? / Christian Science Monitor
CCF Brief: homesick kids and helicopter parents: are today's young adults too emotionally dependent on parents? / Susan Matt
African Americans and the birth of the modern marriage / Donna L. Franklin
Changing counts, counting change: Americans' movement toward a more inclusive definition of family / Brian Powell, Catherine Bolzendahl, Claudia Geist, and Lala Carr Steelman
In other words: FAFSA form will now recognize college students' same-sex parents / ThinkProgress
Interracial families in post-civil rights America / Kerry Ann Rockquemore and loren Henderson
CCF brief: changes in interracial marriage / Kimberlyn Fong
Families "in law" and families "in practice": does the law recognize families as they really are? / Karen Struening
Childfree families / Amy Blackstone and Amy Greenleaf
CCF facts: aging alone in America / Eric Klinenberg, Stacy Torres, and Elena Portacolone
In the news: loneliness and race in the twilight years / DCentric
New couples, new families: the cohabitation revolution in the United States / Pamela J. Smock and Wendy D. Manning
CCF brief: does premarital cohabitation raise your risk of divorce? / Arielle Kuperberg
Growing up with a lesbian, gay, or bisexual sibling / Amy Brainer
CCF symposium: why interracial marriage is good for black women, and experts in response / Ralph Richard Banks
In the news: Stanford law professor argues black women should cross race barrier for marriage partners / San Jose Mercury News
In other words: the coolest thing about online dating sites / Cyborgology
Life in a dual-earner couple before, during, and after the Great Recession / Shannon N. Davis and Brittany Owen
From outlaws to in-laws: gay and lesbian couples in contemporary society / Robert-Jay Green
In other words: some states see fight for right to same-sex divorce / Associated Press
Independent women: equality in African American lesbian relationships / Mignon R. Moore
Why is everyone afraid of sex? / Pepper Schwartz
First comes love, then comes herpes: sexual health and relationships / Adina Nack
CCF facts: Valentine's day fact sheet on healthy sex / Adina Nack
In other words: can we have the HPV vaccine without the sexism and the homophobia? / Ms. blog
Orgasm in college hookups and relationships / Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Paula England, and Alison C. K. Fogarty
In other words: hooking up as a college culture / Gender & Society blog
In other words: everything you wanted to know about sex and houseword but were too busy to ask / The Washington Post
The marriage movement / Orit Avishai, Melanie Heath, and Jennifer Randles
In the news: how to stay married / The Times of London
CCF brief: promoting marriage among single mothers: an ineffective weapon in the war on poverty? / Kristi Williams
In the news: no, marriage is not a good way to fight poverty / ThinkProgress
The case for divorce / Virginia E. Rutter
In other words: silver linings divorce trend / Family Inequality
Stepfamilies as they really are: neither Cinderella nor the Brady Bunch / Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence Ganong
Beyond family structure: family process studies help to reframe debates about what's good for children / Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan
CCF brief: was the war on poverty a failure? Or are antipoverty efforts swimming simply against a stronger tide? / Philip N. Cohen
Parenting adult children in the twenty-first century / Joshua Coleman
In the news: lean times force many bay area "boomerang kids" to return home as adults / San Jose Mercury News
CCF facts: myths of later motherhood / Elizabeth Gregory
In the news: number of "older" women having babies continues to grow / Deseret News
"This is your job now": Latina mothers and daughters and family work / Lorena Garcia
Adoptive parents raising neoethnics / Pamela Anne Quiroz
Parents as pawns: interses, medical experts, and questionable consent / Georgiann Davis
In the news: op-ed: hey, Fox News, intersex is not a punchline / The Advocate
The power of queer: how "guy moms" challenge heteronormative assumptions about mothering and family / Raine Dozier
In other words: dress shopping and gender bending: why I'm wearing a suit and a veil / Offbeat Bride
In other words: the class and race demographics of LGBT families / Sociological Images
The immigration kaleidoscope: knowing the immigrant family next door / Etiony Aldarondo and Edward Ameen
In the news: the picture-perfect American family? These days, it doesn't exist / The Washington Post
When men stay home: household labor in female-led Indian migrant families / Pallavi Banerjee
In the news: an immigrant wife's place? In the home, according to visa policy / Ms. blog
Diverging development: the not-so-invisible hand of social class in the United States / Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.
CCF brief: unequal childhoods: inequalities in the rhythms of daily life / Annette Lareau
Not just provide and reside: engaged fathers in low-income families / Kevin Roy and Natasha Cabrera
In other words: more similarities than differences in study of race and fatherhood / Sociological Images
Mass incarceration and family life / Bryan L. Sykes and Becky Pettit
In other words: doing time = doing gender / Girl w/ Pen!
Betwixt and be tween: gender contradictions among middle schoolers / Barbara J. Risman and Elizabeth Seale
Falling back on plan B: the children of the gender revolution face uncharted territory / Kathleen Gerson
CCF facts: women's education and their likelihood of marriage: a historic reversal / Jonathan Bearak and Paula England
In the news: women say "I do" to education, then marriage / Chicago Tribune
Men's changing contribution to family work / Oriel Sullivan
In the news: it's not just us: women around the world do more housework and have less free time / ThinkProgress
Being "the man" without having a job and/or providing care instead of "bread" / Kristen Myers and Ilana Demantas
CCF symposium: equal pay symposium: 50 years since the equal pay act of 1963 / Stephanie Coontz and Virginia E. Rutter
In the news: Yes, I've folded up my masculine mystique, honey / The Sunday Times of London
In other words: still a man's world: the myth of women's ascendance / Boston Review
Families: a great American institution / Barbara J. Risman.
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