The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change. Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children s work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in welfare state protection for families Includes many European, North American and Asian examples written by a team of experts from across five continents Features coverage of previously neglected groups, including immigrant and transnational families as well as families of gays and lesbians Demonstrates how studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life across the globe Extensively reworked from the original Companion published over a decade ago: three-quarters of the material is completely new, and the remainder has been comprehensively updated

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensivevolume investigates modern-day family relationships, partneringand parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economiccultural, and technological change.* Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequalityparenting practices, children's work, changing patterns ofcitizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in welfare stateprotection for families* Includes many European, North American and Asian exampleswritten by a team of experts from across five continents* Features coverage of previously neglected groups, includingimmigrant and transnational families as well as families of gaysand lesbians* Demonstrates how studying social change in families isfundamental for understanding the transformations in individual andsocial life across the globe* Extensively reworked from the original Companion published overa decade ago: three-quarters of the material is completely new, andthe remainder has been comprehensively updated

Notes of Contributors viiiPreface xviPart I Global Perspectives on Families1 Family Systems of the World: Are They Converging? 3Göran Therborn2 Changing European Families 20Trude Lappegård3 American Families: Demographic Trends and Social Class 43Wendy D. Manning and Susan L. Brown4 Family Change in East Asia 61Yen-Chun Cheryl Chen and Jui-Chung Allen Li5 Changes and Inequalities in Latin American Families 83Irma ArriagadaPart II Diversity, Inequality, and Immigration6 Same-Sex Families 109Timothy J. Biblarz, Megan Carroll and Nathaniel Burke7 Family Poverty 132Rys Farthing8 Transnational Families 155Loretta Baldassar, Majella Kilkey, Laura Merla and Raelene Wilding9 Ethnic Diversity in the United Kingdom: Family Forms and Conjugality 176Alison Shaw10 Immigrant Families and the Shifting Color Line in the United States 194Karen D. PykePart III Family Forms and Family Influences11 Cohabitation: Recent Research and Implications 217Rhiannon A. Kroeger and Pamela J. Smock12 Partnerships, Family, and Personal Configurations 236Eric D. Widmer13 Health and Families 255Deborah Carr, Kristen W. Springer and Kristi Williams14 Religion and Families 277Christopher G. Ellison and Xiaohe XuPart IV Family Processes15 Divorce: Trends, Patterns, Causes, and Consequences 303Juho Härkönen16 Partner Violence in World Perspective 323Emily M. Douglas, Denise A. Hines and Murray A. Straus17 Money Management, Gender, and Households 344Sean R. Lauer and Carrie Yodanis18 Family Transmission of Social and Cultural Capital 361Toby L. Parcel and Joshua A. HendrixPart V Life Course Perspectives19 Adult Intergenerational Relationships 385Matthijs Kalmijn20 Children's Families: A Child-Centered Perspective 404Jacqueline Scott21 Fathers and Fatherhood 424Kevin M. Roy22 Aging Families and the Gendered Life Course 444Phyllis Moen, Jack Lam and Melanie N.G. JacksonPart VI Families in Context23 Public Policy and Families 467Pernilla Tunberger and Wendy Sigle-Rushton24 Family Policy and Wives' Economic Independence 485Hadas Mandel25 Assisted Reproduction, Genetic and Genomic Technologies, and Family Life 508Martin Richards26 Sex, Family, and Social Change 52Judith Treas and Thomas Alan Elliott27 The Global Chaos of Love: Toward a Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sociology of Love and Families 547Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-GernsheimIndex 560