Ross D. Parke

Future Families (eBook, ePUB)

Diverse Forms, Rich Possibilities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 families * Illustrates that children and adults can thrive in a variety of non-traditional family forms * Shows the interrelatedness of new trends in family organization through the common themes of embedded families and caregiving in community and cultural contexts * Features 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 architecture * Sets an agenda for future research in the area of families by identifying important gaps in our knowledge about families and parenting

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118602355
• Artikelnr.: 39478151

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vi

Acknowledgments ix

About the Author xi

1 Challenges to the Ideal Family Form 1

2 Changing Parental Roles: The Sharing and Redistribution ofFamily Responsibility in Contemporary Families 25

3 Further Assaults on the "Ideal" Family Form:Divorce, Remarriage, Single Parenthood, and Cohabitation 55

4 Same-Gender Families: Are Two Mothers or Fathers Good Enough?84

5 How Many "Parents" Are Too Many? Insights from theAssisted Reproductive Technologies Front 111

6 Many Mothers, Many Fathers, Many Others: Insights from OtherCultures 141

7 All about Relatives and Fictive Relatives: Insights fromDiverse Ethnic Groups in Our Own Culture (Past and Present) 160

8 Multiple Caregivers: Harmful or Helpful for CaregiversThemselves 191

9 In Support of Alternative Family Forms: Overcoming theBarriers to Change 209

References 243

Index 292

Rezensionen

Link to review in Issuu.com- Winter 2014

"The book is best thought of as a stimulus to new conversations about our conception of families and anexploration of the implications of changing family forms forchildren's development." (Society for Researchin Child Development, 1 January 2014)

Ross Parke's wonderful book arrives in a time when politicalculture wars have intensified (again), with widely clashing viewsabout what ideal families should be like. Parke provides adetailed and engaging account of the diversity of contemporaryfamilies, laying waste along the way to many widely-held mythsabout what is healthy for parents and children that have dominatedcurrent discussions without paying attention to the evidence. Thisbook will serve as the new go-to reference source for familyscholars and their students in the social sciences and humanities.It will also be required reading for (open-minded) politicaldecision-makers and family-service providers who are concerned withhow we allocate resources for families, especially in these timesof economic distress.
--Professors Carolyn and Philip Cowan,Professors Emeriti, University of California, Berkeley

Future Families: Diverse Form, Rich Possibilities is thebest introduction to the topic of family diversity that I have seento date. A succinct but remarkably comprehensive treatment of thetopic of family diversity.
--Professor Frank Furstenberg, Department ofSociology, University of Pennsylvania

This is the most important book on the family to have beenwritten in the 21st Century. It is unsurpassed in terms of itssensitive and erudite consideration of the key questions raised bycontemporary family forms and the extent to which these questionscan be answered by empirical research. It is brings the topic aliveby including real-world examples and discussion of the social andpsychological implications of Future Families - a "must-read"for everyone with an interest in family life today.
--Professor Susan Golombok, Centre for FamilyResearch, University of Cambridge

Even Tolstoy, who thought "all happy families resemble oneanother," could not have imagined the diversity of formsthose happy families take, but Ross Parke has. In thisinnovative book he provides context, understanding, and thescientific basis for appreciating differences in numbers ofparents, gender of parents, and sources of children. Hisscholarship will inform professionals, parents, policy-makers,students, and faculty about the continuing changes in modern familystructure and life.
--Arnold Sameroff, Ph. D. , Professor Emeritusof Psychology, University of Michigan