American families and the future : analyses of possible destinies / Barbara H. Settles. [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Settles, Barbara H., author.

Series:

Marriage & family review.

The marriage & family review series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--United States.

Families.

Family policy--United States.

Family policy.

United States--Social policy.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As the world heads into the twenty-first century, individuals and their families are being confronted with a more diverse array of possible life experiences than has ever existed before. Changes in longevity, marriage, fertility, employment, and many other areas have created new opportunities for individual and family choice and variability in life course experiences. American Families and the Future discusses a variety of issues that face and will continue to families in coming years and describes various strategies families can use in their decisionmaking processes. This enlightening book is divided into five main sections: Demographic Issues; Social and Economic Issues; Technological Issues; Family Process in Shaping the Future; and Family Vision in Creating the Future. Individual chapters view family problem solving from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. American Families and the Future: describes recent demographic trends and considers their implications for how individuals and their families plan and prepare for their later adult life reviews health care issues and concerns for the elderly and addresses strategies for self-health promotion and illness prevention provides examples illustrating the uses and abuses of data to promote partisan views and agendas outlines a conceptual framework that can be uses to understand problem solving and decisionmaking by individuals and family groups presents a model that explores family decisionmaking, focusing on the conditions under which decisions are made presents findings from a study of early adolescents'perceptions of their role in family decisionmaking The book closes with an upbeat discussion of possible solutions to current pathologies affecting human societies and cultures. Professionals who work with families will find this book an enlightening and encouraging guide for helping families cope with the myriad issues and choices they face in planning for their futures.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Copyright; Title; Contents; Expanding Choice in Long Term Planning for Family Futures; Introduction; Opportunities and Necessities for Planning; Requirements for Planning; Trends in the Expansion of Choice; Summary; Implications for Research and Theory; Implications for Practice and Professional Education; Foundations for Family Activities in Long Range Planning; DEMOGRAPHIC ISSUES; Recent Demographic Change: Implications for Families Planning for the Future; Introduction; Mortality and Life Expectancy; Marriage; Fertility; Divorce and Remarriage

Women's Labor Force ParticipationRetirement; Conclusions; SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES; Present and Future Health Care for an Aging Society: A Proactive Self-Health Approach; Introduction; Conceptual Model for Self and Family Health Promotion; Overview of Health Care Reform Proposals; Proposed Strategies for Self and Family Health Promotion, Illness Prevention, and Optimum Adaptation to Chronic Illness; Policy and Research Implications; Conclusions; Intergenerational Issues in Long Term Planning; Understanding Long Term Planning and the Need to Plan; Caregiving; Who Gives the Care?

Who Is Available?Views and Expectations of Caregiving; Issues in Caregiving; Issues of Choice and Control; Caregiving as a Social Problem; Institutional Care; Medical-Caregiver Relationship; At What Costs Is Caregiving Being Given?; Filial Responsibility; Emerging Legal Issues; Conclusion; Social Programs for Families in Poverty: Past Impacts and Future Prospects; Introduction; Government Attempts to Reduce Poverty; Effect of Government Transfers on Poverty; Reviewing Progress Since 1964; The Reagan Administration and Antipoverty Programs; Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

Growth in Female Heads of Household and Their Rate of PovertyExplanations for Increases in Female Heads of Household; Female Heads of Household and Welfare Dependency; Effects of AFDC on Family Structure and Behavior; Financial Responsibility of the Absent Parent; Effect of Budget Cuts on AFDC and Other Child Welfare Programs; Increasing the Employment Level of the Poor; Conclusion; Looking to the Future; TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES; Issues of Technology's Possible Futures; Introduction: Nature, Humanity, Technology, and Science; Technology, Science, and Their Values; Reproductive Technologies

Work and Family Life TechnologiesWhat Futures?; Technological Change, Sexuality, and Family Futures Planning; Introduction; Four Challenges; Conclusion; FAMILY PROCESS IN SHAPING THE FUTURE; Theoretical Issues in Researching Problem Solving in Families; Introduction; Point of Departure; Definitions; A Taxonomy of Problems; Strategies for Building a Theory of Problem Solving Behavior That Can Help Students of the Family; The Theory-A Discursive Summary; Conclusion

Problem-Solving and Decision-Making as Central Processes of Family Life: An Ecological Framework for Family Relations and Family Resource Management

Notes:

First published 1993 by The Haworth Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 27, 2016).

ISBN:

1-315-80121-3

1-317-76487-0

1-317-76486-2

9781315801216

OCLC:

958099933