[eBook Code] The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families (eBook Code, 1st)

Notes of Contributors viii

Preface xvi

Part I Global Perspectives on Families

1 Family Systems of the World: Are They Converging? 3
Göran Therborn

2 Changing European Families 20
Trude Lappegård

3 American Families: Demographic Trends and Social Class 43
Wendy D. Manning and Susan L. Brown

4 Family Change in East Asia 61
Yen-Chun Cheryl Chen and Jui-Chung Allen Li

5 Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families 83
Irma Arriagada

Part II Diversity, Inequality, and Immigration

6 Same-Sex Families 109
Timothy J. Biblarz, Megan Carroll and Nathaniel Burke

7 Family Poverty 132
Rys Farthing

8 Transnational Families 155
Loretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla and Raelene Wilding

9 Ethnic Diversity in the United Kingdom: Family Forms and Conjugality 176
Alison Shaw

10 Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United States 194
Karen D. Pyke

Part III Family Forms and Family Influences

11 Cohabitation: Recent Research and Implications 217
Rhiannon A. Kroeger and Pamela J. Smock

12 Partnerships, Family, and Personal Configurations 236
Eric D. Widmer

13 Health and Families 255
Deborah Carr, Kristen W. Springer and Kristi Williams

14 Religion and Families 277
Christopher G. Ellison and Xiaohe Xu

Part IV Family Processes

15 Divorce: Trends, Patterns, Causes, and Consequences 303
Juho Härkönen

16 Partner Violence in World Perspective 323
Emily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines and Murray A. Straus

17 Money Management, Gender, and Households 344
Sean R. Lauer and Carrie Yodanis

18 Family Transmission of Social and Cultural Capital 361
Toby L. Parcel and Joshua A. Hendrix

Part V Life Course Perspectives

19 Adult Intergenerational Relationships 385
Matthijs Kalmijn

20 Children’s Families: A Child-Centered Perspective 404
Jacqueline Scott

21 Fathers and Fatherhood 424
Kevin M. Roy

22 Aging Families and the Gendered Life Course 444
Phyllis Moen, Jack Lam and Melanie N.G. Jackson

Part VI Families in Context

23 Public Policy and Families 467
Pernilla Tunberger and Wendy Sigle-Rushton

24 Family Policy and Wives’ Economic Independence 485
Hadas Mandel

25 Assisted Reproduction, Genetic and Genomic Technologies, and Family Life 508
Martin Richards

26 Sex, Family, and Social Change 52
Judith Treas and Thomas Alan Elliott

27 The Global Chaos of Love: Toward a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Love and Families 547
Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

Index 560