The future of the family /
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Lee Rainwater, editors.
- xxvii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Preface : a Dahrendorf inversion and the twilight of the family : the challenge to the conference / The challenge of family system changes for research and policy / The spread of single-parent families in the United States since 1960 / Unmarried cohabitation and parenthood : here to stay? : European perspectives / Single-parent poverty, inequality, and the welfare state / Father absence and child well-being : a critical review / Fatherlessness in non-intact families and gender inequality in intact families : two sides of the same coin? / The developmentalist perspective : a missing voice / Demography, public policy, and "problem" families / Marriage, family, and the welfare of children : a call for action / Progressive family policy in the twenty-first century / Disincentives to care : a critique of U.S. family policy / The value of children / Values, policy, and the family / Policy and the family / John L. Palmer -- Daniel P. Moynihan / Edited by Timothy M. Smeeding -- Timothy M. Smeeding, Daniel P. Moynihan and Lee Rainwater -- David T. Ellwood and Christopher Jencks -- Kathleen Kiernan -- Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding -- Wendy Sigle-Rushton and Sara McLanahan -- Janet C. Gornick -- P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale -- Douglas A. Wolf -- Wade F. Horn -- Will Marshall and Isabel V. Sawhill -- Nancy Folbre -- Samuel H. Preston -- Frank F. Furstenberg -- Irwin Garfinkel. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14.
"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.
0871546256 9780871546258
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Families--United States Family policy--United States Child welfare--United States