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The Cookie Jar of Life, written by Dorothy L Hansen is a collection of short stories that begin with her life as one of eight children growing up in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. At the heart of her family is her genteel, principled mother, who helped temper the harshness of the times with her loving example and by teaching the importance of cooperation and how every individual has value - whether rich or poor. From those early years, the seeds of working together towards a common ideal were born. Her stories continue through the decades as she continues her journey as a young adult...

Any agenda for family research in the 1990s must take seriously a contextual approach to the study of family relationships. The editors and contributors to this volume believe that the richness in family studies over the next decade will come from considering the diversity of family forms -- different ethnic groups and cultures, different stages of family life, as well as different historical cohorts. Their goal is to make more explicit how we think about families in order to study them and understand them. To illustrate the need for diversity in family studies, examples are presented from...