*New to this edition
PART ONE--THE CHANGING FAMILY
Families Past and Present
1. William J. Goode / “The Theoretical Importance of the Family”
2. Anthony Giddens, “The Global Revolution in Family and Personal Life”
3. Arlene Skolnick / “The Life Course Revolution”
4. Donald J. Hernandez / “Changes in the Demographics of Families Over the Course of American History” *
Public Debates and Private Lives
5. Sharon Hays / “The Mommy Wars: Ambivalence, Ideological Work, and the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood”
6. Janet Z. Giele / “Decline of the Family: Conservative, Liberal, and Feminist Views”
7. George Chauncey / “Why Do Gays Want to Marry?” *
PART TWO--SEX AND GENDER
Changing Gender Roles
8. Robert M. Jackson / “Destined for Equality”
9. Kathleen Gerson / “Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field”
Sexuality and Society
10. Amy T. Schalet / “Raging Hormones, Regulated Love: Adolescent Sexuality in the United States and the Netherlands”
11. Beth Bailey / “Sexual Revolution(s)”
Courtship and Marriage
12. Paula England / “The Decline of Dating and the Rise of the Hook Up” *
13. Arlene Skolnick / “Grounds for Marriage: How Relationships Succeed or Fail”
14. Lynne M. Casper and Suzanne M. Bianchi / “Cohabitation”
15. Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. / “The Future of Marriage”
Divorce and Remarriage
16. Karla B. Hackstaff / “Divorce Culture: A Quest for Relational Equality in Marriage”
17. Joan B. Kelly and Robert E. Emery / “Children’s Adjustment Following Divorce: Risk and Resilience Perspectives”
18. Mary Ann Mason / “The Modern American Stepfamily: Problems and Possibilities”
PART THREE--PARENTS AND CHILDREN
Parenthood
19. Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan / “New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers”
20. Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel / “Caring for Our Young: Child Care in Europe and the United States”
21. Lawrence Friedman / “Who Are Our Children: Adoption Past and Present” *
22. Nicholas Townsend / “The Four Facets of Fatherhood”
Childhood
23. Steven Mintz / “Beyond Sentimentality: American Childhood as a Social and Cultural Construct”
24. Ellen Galinsky / “What Children Think about Their Working Parents”
25. Vern L. Bengston, Timothy J. Biblarz, and Robert E. L. Roberts / “How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations”
PART FOUR--FAMILIES IN SOCIETY
Work and Family
26. Katherine S. Newman / “Family Values against the Odds”
27. Arlie Hochschild, with Anne Machung / “The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home”
28. Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson / “The Work-Home Crunch”
Family and the Economy
29. Lillian B. Rubin / “Families on the Fault Line”
30. Harriet B. Presser / “The Economy That Never Sleeps” *
31. Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi / Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke” *
Dimensions of Diversity
32. Ronald L. Taylor / “Diversity within African American Families”
33. Maxine Baca Zinn and Barbara Wells / “Diversity within Latino Families: New Lessons for Family Social Science”
34. Judith Stacey / “Gay and Lesbian Families: Queer Like Us” *
35. Karen Pyke / “‘The Normal American Family’ as an Interpretive Structure of Family Life among Grown Children of Korean and Vietnamese Immigrants”
12 Trouble in the Family
36. Jeremy Travis / “Prisoners’ Families and Children” *
37. Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas / “Unmarried with Children”
38. Denise A. Hines and Kathleen Malley-Morrison / “Issues in the Definition of Family Violence and Abuse” *