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The Future of the Family Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Lee Rainwater, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare--United States.
- Child welfare.
- Family policy--United States.
- Family policy.
- Families--United States.
- Families.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- High rates of divorce, single-parenthood, and nonmarital cohabitation are forcing Americans to reexamine their definition of family.This evolving social reality requires public policy to evolve as well.
- Contents:
- Contents ; Contributors; Foreword - John L. Palmer ; Preface. A Dahrendorf Inversion and the Twilight of the Family: The Challenge to the Conference - Daniel P. Moynihan, edited and amended by Timothy M. Smeeding; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. The Challenge of Family System Changes for Research and Policy - Timothy M. Smeeding, Daniel P. Moynihan, and Lee Rainwater; Part I. What Do We Know?; Chapter 2. The Spread of Single-Parent Families in the United States Since 1960 - David T. Ellwood and Christopher Jencks
- Chapter 3. Unmarried Cohabitation and Parenthood: Here to Stay? European Perspectives - Kathleen KiernanChapter 4. Single-Parent Poverty, Inequality, and the Welfare State - Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding; Chapter 5. Father Absence and Child Well-Being: A Critical Review - Wendy Sigle-Rushton and Sara McLanahan; Part II. Commentary on the Family; Chapter 6. Fatherlessness in Non-Intact Families and Gender Inequality in Intact Families: Two Sides of the Same Coin? - Janet C. Gornick; Chapter 7. The Developmentalist Perspective: A Missing Voice - P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
- Chapter 8. Demography, Public Policy, and "Problem" Families - Douglas A. WolfPart III. Policy Perspectives; Chapter 9. Marriage, Family, and the Welfare of Children: A Call for Action - Wade F. Horn ; Chapter 10. Progressive Family Policy in the Twenty-First Century - Will Marshall and Isabel V. Sawhill ; Chapter 11. Disincentives to Care: A Critique of U.S. Family Policy - Nancy Folbre ; Part IV. Making Sense of Family Change and Family Policy ; Chapter 12. The Value of Children - Samuel H. Preston ; Chapter 13. Values, Policy, and the Family - Frank F. Furstenberg
- Chapter 14. Policy and the Family - Irwin Garfinkel Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-412-4
- OCLC:
- 906809339
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