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Adolescent Female Sexuality
Adolescent Pregnancy
Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Adolescent Sexuality
american
American Family Life
American Family Patterns
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Betty G. Farrell
Caretaking Arrangements
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child welfare history
Closer Birth Intervals
Courtship Market
Custodial Grandparents
demographic family change
dyadic
Dyadic Intimacy
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Family Values Debate
gender role evolution
historical myths about American families
historical sociology
Intergenerational Family Relations
intimacy
Key Life Stages
Large Families
late
Late Twentieth Century United States
life
Married Women
Modern Family
myth of nuclear family
Nonmarital Childbearing
patterns
Premarital Pregnancy
Private Pension Plans
Sexual Revolution
sociological family analysis
states
Traditional American Family
twentieth
united
values
War Ii
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780813315461
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The research conducted by family historians over the past three decades challenges, modifies, and ultimately enriches sociological understandings about American family life today. By looking closely at the historical record, the author is able to debunk certain myths, such as the belief that the “ideal” family (male breadwinner and female domestic manager) has been historically prevalent; that the “traditional” family has been disintegrating in recent years; that the presumed breakdown of the family has left children more vulnerable than in the past.
Betty G. Farrell is professor of sociology at Pitzer College.
