All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195148819 ISBN 13: 9780195148817

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Author:

Mary Ann Mason is at University of California, Berkeley. Arlene Skolnick is at New York University. Stephen D. Sugarman is at University of California, Berkeley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195148819
• ISBN 13: 9780195148817
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 322
• Editor: Mason Mary Ann, Skolnick Arlene, Sugarman Stephen D.