The future of the family / Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Lee Rainwater, editors.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xxvii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0871546256
- 9780871546258
- 306.850973 22
- HQ536 .F98 2004
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.850973 FUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A265570B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / John L. Palmer -- Preface : a Dahrendorf inversion and the twilight of the family : the challenge to the conference / Daniel P. Moynihan / Edited by Timothy M. Smeeding -- Ch. 1. The challenge of family system changes for research and policy / Timothy M. Smeeding, Daniel P. Moynihan and Lee Rainwater -- Ch. 2. The spread of single-parent families in the United States since 1960 / David T. Ellwood and Christopher Jencks -- Ch. 3. Unmarried cohabitation and parenthood : here to stay? : European perspectives / Kathleen Kiernan -- Ch. 4. Single-parent poverty, inequality, and the welfare state / Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding -- Ch. 5. Father absence and child well-being : a critical review / Wendy Sigle-Rushton and Sara McLanahan -- Ch. 6. Fatherlessness in non-intact families and gender inequality in intact families : two sides of the same coin? / Janet C. Gornick -- Ch. 7. The developmentalist perspective : a missing voice / P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale -- Ch. 8. Demography, public policy, and "problem" families / Douglas A. Wolf -- Ch. 9. Marriage, family, and the welfare of children : a call for action / Wade F. Horn -- Ch. 10. Progressive family policy in the twenty-first century / Will Marshall and Isabel V. Sawhill -- Ch. 11. Disincentives to care : a critique of U.S. family policy / Nancy Folbre -- Ch. 12. The value of children / Samuel H. Preston -- Ch. 13. Values, policy, and the family / Frank F. Furstenberg -- Ch. 14. Policy and the family / Irwin Garfinkel.
"This book takes stock of the state of the family in the United States today and addresses the ways in which public policy affects the family and vice versa."--BOOK JACKET.
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