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Informationen zum Autor Stephanie Coontz is a member of the faculty of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and the director of research and public education at the Council on Contemporary Families. Klappentext After exposing "the good old days" in THE WAY WE NEVER WERE! historian Stephanie Coontz now provides compelling evidence that the structure of the modern family! though much changed from the traditional model! is working better than ever. She argues that although many may miss the more hopeful economic trends of the 1950s and '60s! few would want to go back to the gender roles and race relations of those years. Zusammenfassung Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today's family -- the demonizing of "untraditional" family forms and marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while it's not crazy to miss the more hopeful economic trends of the 1950s and 1960s, few would want to go back to the gender roles and race relations of those years. Mothers are going to remain in the workforce, family diversity is here to stay, and the nuclear family can no longer handle all the responsibilities of elder care and childrearing. Coontz gives a balanced account of how these changes affect families, both positively and negatively, but she rejects the notion that the new diversity is a sentence of doom. Every family has distinctive resources and special vulnerabilities, and there are ways to help each one build on its strengths and minimize its weaknesses. The book provides a meticulously researched, balanced account showing why a historically informed perspective on family life can be as much help to people in sorting through family issues as going into therapy -- and much more help than listening to today's political debates. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Introduction * Getting Past the Sound Bites: How History and Sociology Can Help Todays Families * What We Really Miss about the 1950s * Why Working Mothers Are Here to Stay * The Future of Marriage * Putting Divorce in Perspective * How Holding on to Tradition Sets Families Back * Looking for Someone to Blame: Families and Economic Change * How Ignoring Historical and Societal Change Puts Kids at Risk * Working with What Weve Got: The Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Todays Families ...
