Future Families explores the variety of family forms which characterize our contemporary culture, while addressing the implications of these increasingly diverse family units on child development. Reveals the diversity of new family forms based on the most current research on fathers, same-gender parents, new reproductive technologies, and immigrant familiesIllustrates that children and adults can thrive in a variety of non-traditional family formsShows the interrelatedness of new trends in family organization through the common themes of embedded families and caregiving in community and cultural contextsFeatures an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from works in areas that include child development, family studies, sociology, cross-cultural scholarship, ethnic studies, biology, neuroscience, anthropology and even architectureSets an agenda for future research in the area of families by identifying important gaps in our knowledge about families and parenting
Ross D. Parke is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, and past Director of the Center for Family Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He has authored or co-authored several books on the field, including Fathers and Fatherhood, Throwaway Dads, Child Psychology: A Contemporary Perspective, and Social Development.
Preface viAcknowledgments ixAbout the Author xi1 Challenges to the Ideal Family Form 12 Changing Parental Roles: The Sharing and Redistribution of Family Responsibility in Contemporary Families 253 Further Assaults on the “Ideal” Family Form: Divorce, Remarriage, Single Parenthood, and Cohabitation 554 Same-Gender Families: Are Two Mothers or Fathers Good Enough? 845 How Many “Parents” Are Too Many? Insights from the Assisted Reproductive Technologies Front 1116 Many Mothers, Many Fathers, Many Others: Insights from Other Cultures 1417 All about Relatives and Fictive Relatives: Insights from Diverse Ethnic Groups in Our Own Culture (Past and Present) 1608 Multiple Caregivers: Harmful or Helpful for Caregivers Themselves 1919 In Support of Alternative Family Forms: Overcoming the Barriers to Change 209References 243Index 292
Link to review in http://issuu.com/ucriverside/docs/ucr_magazine_winter_2014?e=2768134/6969848"Issuu.com - Winter 2014“The book is best thought of as a stimulus to new conversations about our conception of families and an exploration of the implications of changing family forms for children’s development.” (Society for Research in Child Development, 1 January 2014)
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