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Stepfamilies : who benefits? who does not?

Author: Alan Booth; Judy Dunn
Publisher: Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alan Booth; Judy Dunn
ISBN: 0805815449 9780805815443
OCLC Number: 30156312
Notes: Contains papers from the National Symposium on Stepfamilies held Oct. 14-15, 1993 at the Pennsylvania State University.
Description: x, 233 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The evolution of marriage and the problem of stepfamilies David Popenoe --
Stepfamilies in the United States / Marilyn Coleman --
Remarriages and stepfamilies are not inherently problematic / Lawrence A Kurdek --
Biology, evolutionary theory, and family social science / Norval D Glenn --
Stepfamilies as settings for child development / E Mavis Hetherington and Kathleen M Jodl --
The implications of research findings on children in stepfamilies / Paul R. Amato --
Settings and development from a demographic point of view / Elizabeth Thomson --
Understanding why children in stepfamilies have more learning and behavior problems than children in nuclear families / Nicholas Zill --
Stepfamilies over the life course : social support / Lynn White --
Conceptual and methodological issues in the study of stepfamilies over the life course / Teresa M Cooney --
Stepfamilies : selectivity of high-risk persons or risk state? / Dennis P Hogan --
Intergenerational ties in adulthood and childhood experience / Judith A Seltzer --
Research on stepparenting families : integrating disciplinary approaches and informing policy / Jeanne Brooks-Gunn --
Reformulating the legal definition of the stepparent-child relationship / Margaret M Mahoney --
Social policy pertaining to stepfamilies : should stepparents and stepchildren have the option of establishing a legal relationship? / Mark A Fine --
Policies for stepfamilies : crosswalking private and public domains / P Lindsay Chase-Lansdale.
Responsibility: edited by Alan Booth, Judy Dunn.
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