Stepfamilies : History, Research, and Policy

ISBN-13: 9780789003386 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 346 str.

Irene Levin; Marvin B. Sussman; Irene Levin

Opis

Stepfamilies: History, Research, and Policy examines language use, laws, cultural stereotypes, media images, and social policies and practices to create an understanding of how predominant views about stepfamilies and stepfamily members are constructed within society. As the rates of divorce and remarriage continue to increase, it is more important than ever to overcome nuclear family ideology and abandon the model of research that compares stepfamilies with nonstepfamilies. This book shows you how honor and empowerment can be attained in new family structures and how alternative kin networks can be just as healthy as the traditional nuclear family unit.

O autorze

Irene Lela, PhD. is Asociate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Oslo College in Oslo. Norway. She is the author of three books, Stepfamilies: Variation and manifold, Understand Everyday Life with a Symbolic lnteractionistic Perspective, and Relation. Marvin B Sussman, PhD, is UNIDEL Professor of Human Behavior Emeritus at the College of Human Resources at the University of Delaware. He is also a member of the CORE Faculty of the Union Graduate School of Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. A member of many professional organizations, he received the 1980 Ernest W. Burgess Award of the National Council on Family Relations. In 1983. Dr. Sussman was elected to the prestigious Academy of Groves for scholarly contributions to the field, and, in 1984, he was awarded a lifelong membership for services to the Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family.