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African American Families
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Battered Women
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caregiving practices
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contemporary family structures analysis
cross-cultural family studies
Divorced Fathers
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Extended Families
Family Decline
Family Friendly Policies
family sociology
gender roles in households
Good Lives
Good Provider Role
hallway
Hallway Hangers
hangers
Invisible Women
Joint Physical Custody
kinship systems
Large Families
Married Women
Men Batter
migration and family dynamics
Modern Families
Mount Allegro
Soft Ice Cream
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states
statistical
Tv Family
united
United States
West Germany
White Families
Wife Beating
Working Class Marriages
Younger Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781594510175
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Unlike other family textbooks that mostly emphasize conflicts and problems, this book also features the joys and pleasures of family living and its mutually nourishing qualities. Its perspective reflects polls, surveys, and student essays indicating that most people value their families. Families everywhere provide love, support, and sustenance to their members, but they do so in many different arrangements.Understanding the wide variety of families historically and across cultures gives the student a better basis for understanding how families change and a better grasp of more controversial changes such as the gradual acceptance by Westerners of same-sex marriage and child-rearing by single people. Liazos offers two poignant chapters not found in other texts. Family Living (Chapter Six) focuses on the social value of caregiving and family meals. Kin and Community (Chapter Seven) focuses on relationships among kin and the larger community.
Alex Liazos is Professor of Sociology at Regis College in Weston, MA, and the author of two other sociology texts:
People First: An Introduction to Social Problems and Sociology: A Liberating Perspective.
