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Future Families explores the variety of family forms which characterize our contemporary culture, while addressing the implications of these increasingly diverse family units on child development.
* Reveals the diversity of new family forms based on the most current research on fathers, same-gender parents, new reproductive technologies, and immigrant families
* Illustrates that children and adults can thrive in a variety of non-traditional family forms
* Shows the interrelatedness of new trends in family organization through the common themes of embedded families and caregiving in community and cultural contexts
* Features an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from works in areas that include child development, family studies, sociology, cross-cultural scholarship, ethnic studies, biology, neuroscience, anthropology and even architecture
* Sets an agenda for future research in the area of families by identifying important gaps in our knowledge about families and parenting
Sommario
Chapter 1 Challenges to the Ideal Family Form
Chapter 2 Changing Parental Roles: The Sharing and Redistribution of Family Responsibility in Contemporary Families
Chapter 3 Further Assaults on the "Ideal" Family Form: Divorce, Re-Marriage, Single Parenthood and Cohabitation
Chapter 4 Same-Gender Families: Are Two Mothers or Fathers Good Enough?
Chapter 5 How Many "Parents" Are Too Many? Insights from the Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Chapter 6 Many Mothers, Many Fathers, Many Others: Insights from Other Cultures
Chapter 7 All About Relatives and Fictive Relatives: Insights from Diverse Ethnic Groups in Our Own Culture (Past and Present)
Chapter 8 Multiple Caregivers: Harmful or Helpful for Caregivers Themselves
Chapter 9 In Support of Alternative Family Forms: Overcoming the Barriers to Change
Relazione
Link to review in Issuu.com - Winter 2014
"The book is best thought of as a stimulus to new conversations about our conception of families and an exploration of the implications of changing family forms for children's development." (Society for Research in Child Development, 1 January 2014)
