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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul McCaffrey |
ISBN: | 9780824211189 0824211189 9780824212490 0824212495 |
OCLC Number: | 778426405 |
Description: | xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Who is family today? -- Contemporary motherhood -- Changing perspectives on fatherhood -- Adoption and the changing face of families -- Families across cultures -- Family, finances, and the economy. [Pt.] 1: Who is family today?. Family redefined / Paul McCaffrey -- Address to the Iowa House of Representatives / Zach Wahls -- How America changed / Haya El Nasser and Paul Overberg -- What is family? / Heather Somaini -- Freer, messier, happier / Jeremy Adam Smith -- Gay couples : a close look at this modern family / Sharon Jayson -- More gay men embrace marriage, fatherhood / The Associated Press -- SPLC lawsuit challenges Defense of Marriage Act, VA for refusing to recognize legally married same-sex couples / SPLC.org -- Fighting for family / Tara Cavanaugh -- [Pt.] 2: Contemporary motherhood. American mothers : finding a balance / Paul McCaffrey -- Midlife mamas : it's worth the wait / Karen West -- Why I left my children / Rahna Reiko Rizzuto -- Mother huckster / Sarah McAbee -- The mommy option : 1 in 4 moms stay-at-home / Elizabeth Gettelman -- The Jewish mother I never thought I'd be / Kim Brooks -- Obama's young mother abroad / Janny Scott -- [Pt.] 3: Changing perspectives on fatherhood. Fatherhood across the spectrum / Paul McCaffrey -- Remarks by the President at a Father's Day event / Barack Obama -- How dads develop / Brian Mossop -- Military dads and fatherwork / Jerry Novack -- Holidays / Nick Serpe -- Father's Day : why dads are more engaged--and more absent / Mark Trumbull -- Whv antipoverty efforts must not neglect fathers / Leslie Lenkowsky -- Fatherhood 2.0 / Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and Lev Grossman -- [Pt.] 4: Adoption and the changing face of families. Multiple approaches to adoption and building families / Paul McCaffrey -- Modern family / Meryl Gordon -- About a boy / Adam H. Graham -- The American adoption family I know of / Meixin Dai, translated by Sheng-Wei Wang -- Same & different / Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee -- Born identity / Kelley Christin -- For adoptive parents, questions without answers / John Leland -- Adoption 2.0 : finding mom on Facebook / Belinda Luscombe -- [Pt.] 5: Families across cultures. Bicultural and multilingual families / Paul McCaffrey -- Dearborn in the USA / Sohrab Ahmari -- The Latino crescent / Lyndsey Matthews -- Chinese or American? Or both? / Amy Ku -- I just came out to my 80-something father / Prumsodun Ok -- I am Chinese American / Ray Kwong -- My life as an undocumented immigrant / Jose Antonio Vargas -- Mideast meets Midwest / James Poniewozik -- [Pt.] 6 : Family, finances, and the economy. Family and the economy / Paul McCaffrey -- Poverty, hardship and families : how many people are poor, and what does being poor in America really mean? / Philip N. Cohen -- All together now : extended families / Sharon Jayson -- One in two new graduates are jobless or underemployed / Hope Yen -- A long, steep drop for Americans' standard of living / Ron Scherer -- Economic check-up dismal for many U.S. families / Jason Kane -- Black Atlantans struggle to stay in the middle class / Robert Siegel. |
Series Title: | Reference shelf, v. 84, no. 4. |
Responsibility: | edited by Paul McCaffrey. |
Abstract:
Discusses the evolution of what constitutes a family and the impact on individuals and society.
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