Umfang:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781000901498
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1000901491
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9781003193500
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1003193501
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9781000901542
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1000901548
Inhalt:
With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and "family-friendly" policies. Considering variations in family forms, including differences in the number and marital status of parents, their gender, sexual orientation and biological relationship to the children (adoption), multicultural families, and families created by technological assistance or surrogacy, it presents demographic information, alongside quantitative and qualitative research, across a number of advanced countries. A contribution to our understanding of the diversity of family forms, how diversity is lived in families, and what family diversity means in various international policy contexts. The Changing Faces of Families will appeal to scholars with interests in the sociology of the family.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1032045027
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781032045023
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1032045027
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9781003193500