All Our Families
New Policies for a New Century
Second Edition
ISBN13: 9780195148817ISBN10: 0195148819
Paperback,
320 pages
Oct 2002,
In Stock
Price:
$39.95 (04)Description
All Our Families, a project of the Berkeley Forum on the Family, takes a hard look at contemporary families. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes chapters on divorcing families, single-parent families, step-families, dual-income families, adolescent-parent families, immigrant families, and gay and lesbian families. Distinguished by their exceptional reputations as family scholars, the Forum's interdisciplinary team of authors examines the challenges to existing public policies that are brought on by problems such as custody disputes, family poverty, parental kidnapping, fathers who aren't really fathers, abuse and neglect, and the special psychological conditions faced by today's couples with newborns. The contending claims of biological and psychological parents are also exposed and confronted.Essential for courses in sociology, psychology, social work, public policy, and law, All Our Families, 2/e proposes new policies for strengthening the families of America as we move into the twenty-first century.
About the Author(s)
Edited by Mary Ann Mason, Dean of the Graduate Division and Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, Arlene Skolnick, Visiting Scholar in the Sociology Department, New York University, and Stephen D. Sugarman, Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
