ISBN:
9780871546289
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (327 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Future of the Family, The
DDC:
306.850973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword - John L. Palmer -- Preface. A Dahrendorf Inversion and the Twilight of the Family: The Challenge to the Conference - Daniel P. Moynihan, edited and amended by Timothy M. Smeeding -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Challenge of Family System Changes for Research and Policy - Timothy M. Smeeding, Daniel P. Moynihan, and Lee Rainwater -- Part I. What Do We Know? -- Chapter 2. The Spread of Single-Parent Families in the United States Since 1960 - David T. Ellwood and Christopher Jencks
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Chapter 3. Unmarried Cohabitation and Parenthood: Here to Stay? European Perspectives - Kathleen Kiernan -- Chapter 4. Single-Parent Poverty, Inequality, and the Welfare State - Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding -- Chapter 5. Father Absence and Child Well-Being: A Critical Review - Wendy Sigle-Rushton and Sara McLanahan -- Part II. Commentary on the Family -- Chapter 6. Fatherlessness in Non-Intact Families and Gender Inequality in Intact Families: Two Sides of the Same Coin? - Janet C. Gornick -- Chapter 7. The Developmentalist Perspective: A Missing Voice - P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
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Chapter 8. Demography, Public Policy, and "Problem" Families - Douglas A. Wolf -- Part III. Policy Perspectives -- Chapter 9. Marriage, Family, and the Welfare of Children: A Call for Action - Wade F. Horn -- Chapter 10. Progressive Family Policy in the Twenty-First Century - Will Marshall and Isabel V. Sawhill -- Chapter 11. Disincentives to Care: A Critique of U.S. Family Policy - Nancy Folbre -- Part IV. Making Sense of Family Change and Family Policy -- Chapter 12. The Value of Children - Samuel H. Preston -- Chapter 13. Values, Policy, and the Family - Frank F. Furstenberg
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Chapter 14. Policy and the Family - Irwin Garfinkel -- Index
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