TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moynihan,Daniel P.
AU  - Smeeding,Timothy M.
AU  - Rainwater,Lee
TI  - The future of the family
SN  - 0871546256
AV  - HQ536 .F98 2004
U1  - 306.850973 22
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Russell Sage Foundation
KW  - Families
KW  - United States
KW  - Family policy
KW  - Child welfare
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1945-
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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