The emergence of family into the 21st century / [edited by] Patricia L. Munhall, Virginia M. Fitzsimons.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Voices One: Situating the family in time -- 1. Families on the brink, on the edge / Lynne Hektor Dunphy -- 2. Isolating the phenomenon of family / Florence G. Sitelman and Robert Sitelman -- 3. Which story shall we tell? / Maureen Duffy and Marilyn Leeds -- Voices Two: Understanding families -- Poem 'Mother's Day' / Patricia Munhall -- 4. How family scientists study families: eight theoretical study frameworks / Hilary A. Rose -- 5. A psychologist reflects on the family / Dennis R. Finger -- 6. The politics of the family / Susan L. Folden -- 7. Preparing modern practitioners for postmodern families / Sherry Hartmann -- Voices Three: Family rituals -- Poem 'My love at 53' / Carolyn Brown -- 8. Food and my family / Joan DiPasquale Davis -- 9. The wedding: the triumph of hope over experience / Lynne Hektor Dunphy -- Voices Four: Constructing a family -- Poem 'After all' / Daniel Collins -- 10. A single woman adopts Catherine / Claudia Hauri -- 11. Through the eyes of Catherine at 7 / Catherine Hauri -- 12. Reflections on becoming and being a mother / Sarah Selen Steen Lauterbach -- 13. Becoming a man in a gay family: dialogue and reflections / Edward M. Freeman -- 14. A normal family: from the perspective of a 21-year-old man / Daniel Collins -- 15. The future of the family: from the perspective of a 21-year-old woman / Christine Fitzsimons -- Voices Five: Attempting to grow a family -- Poems 'Regret' / Connie Vance -- 'A want unfulfilled' / Patricia Munhall-- 16. Infertility: a neon light / Linda Gonzalez -- 17. The quest for an alternative family: confessions of a child-free lesbian / Gabnella Rosetti -- Voices Six: Families grieving -- Poems 'Yesterdays and tomorrows' / JoAnn McKay -- 'Wind beneath my wings' / JoAnn McKay -- 'The gift' / JoAnn McKay -- 'Suzanne' / JoAnn McKay -- 'Long ago' / Amanda -- 'Timeless wounds' / Patricia Munhall -- 18. Dedicated to my Tommy: give sorrow words / Katherine Parry -- 19. The Holocaust revisited: protecting our families / Ellen Goldschmidt Ehrlich -- Voices Seven: Families bearing challenges -- 20. The impact of AIDS on the family / Sande Garcia Jones and Patricia Messmer -- 21. Shadow families / Carolyn L. Brown and Patricia M. Siccardi -- 22. A family in divorce, as told by Sheila / Sheila J. Hopkins -- 23. Housing for the single-parent family: a blueprint for women's educational support / Judith Mathews, Maureen Hreha, and Marilyn Burk -- Voices Eight: Families living with violence -- Poem 'Killing spirits' / Patricia Munhall -- 24. Domestic violence: a loss of selfhood / Evelyn Ortner -- 25. Through the distance: living as an object of anger / Julie M. Evertz -- 26. Cancer of violence: power differentials and family values / Patricia L. Munhall -- Voices Nine: Reflecting on family in the 21st century -- Poem 'Apples and oranges (conversation with Mom, #2)' / Kimberly Jones -- 27. The American way through hazel eyes: a look at the Caribbean Black family / Sandra E. Gibson -- 28. The aging society: fulcrum for the new century / Virginia Macken Fitzsimons -- 29. www.sex.family / Shelley Green -- 30. From Snow White to Esmeralda: a mother-daughter conversation in three generations / Anne Hearon Rambo, Shelby Hearon, and Rachel Shelby Rambo.

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