The status of the American family has been the topic of considerable debate in recent years. As demographic changes make our country more multicultural and as new types of families continue to form and become more common, it is essential for sociologists, social workers, family researchers, and psychologists to understand the full range of diversity in American families. However, to varying extents, African American families, Latino families, Asian American families, poverty-stricken and near-poor families, lesbian and gay families, single-parent families, and stepfamilies have been...
The status of the American family has been the topic of considerable debate in recent years. As demographic changes make our country more multicultura...
This comprehensive handbook presents the most up-to-date scholarship on divorce and the dissolution of relationships. It integrates work on the causes, processes, consequences, and policy implications of relationship dissolution. Featuring contributions from leading scholars from multiple disciplines, this Handbook reviews the patterns and processes involved in relationship termination, including why they may vary depending on such factors as legal status, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Chapters distinguish what is known about divorce from what is known about other types of...
This comprehensive handbook presents the most up-to-date scholarship on divorce and the dissolution of relationships. It integrates work on the causes...
This Handbook presents up-to-date scholarship on the causes and predictors, processes, and consequences of divorce and relationship dissolution. Featuring contributions from multiple disciplines, this Handbook reviews relationship termination, including variations depending on legal status, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation. The Handbook focuses on the often-neglected processes involved as the relationship unfolds, such as infidelity, hurt, and remarriage. It also covers the legal and policy aspects, the demographics, and the historical aspects of divorce. Intended for researchers,...
This Handbook presents up-to-date scholarship on the causes and predictors, processes, and consequences of divorce and relationship dissolution. Featu...
This text presents a different approach to understanding the family unit and how and why it functions as it does. The approach focuses on the cognitions of family members and how these, in turn, shape individuals' behaviour and the functioning of the family system.
This text presents a different approach to understanding the family unit and how and why it functions as it does. The approach focuses on the cognitio...
Beyond the Average Divorce provides marriage and family scholars and students a rich depiction of how children and adults of all ages respond to diverse divorce experiences. Rather than emphasizing means and averages in looking at "typical" family reactions to divorce, authors David H. Demo and Mark A. Fine emphasize variability and change over time in the pre-divorce, divorce, and post-divorce process. The book's three parts explore theoretical and methodological tools for studying divorce, the divorce process and its multiple pathways, and future directions in research....
Beyond the Average Divorce provides marriage and family scholars and students a rich depiction of how children and adults of all a...
Organized by content areas rather than by theory, this comprehensive, accessible handbook helps readers gain greater insight into how key theories have impacted today s family research. Most competing books, organized by theory, do not provide a strong sense of the links between theory and research. Using the 2000 and 2010 decade-in-review issues of the Journal of Marriage and Family as a resource, the book addresses the most important topics impacting family studies research today.
The introductory chapter, written by the editors, provides an overview of the role family...
Organized by content areas rather than by theory, this comprehensive, accessible handbook helps readers gain greater insight into how key theories ...
Organized by content areas rather than by theory, this comprehensive handbook helps readers gain greater insight into how key theories have impacted today's family research. Most competing books, organized by theory, do not provide a strong sense of the links between theory and research. Using the 2000 and 2010 decade-in-review issues of the Journal of Marriage and Family as a resource, the book addresses the most important topics impacting family studies research today.
Organized by content areas rather than by theory, this comprehensive handbook helps readers gain greater insight into how key theories have impacted t...