UID:
almahu_9949485187202882
Format:
1 online resource (259 pages)
ISBN:
1-000-90154-8
,
1-00-319350-1
,
1-000-90149-1
,
1-003-19350-1
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Family Sociology Series
Content:
"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 problematises the pre-eminence of research and policy centred 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), multi-cultural 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"--
Note:
List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- 1 Beyond standard families in advanced countries / Marina A. Adler and Karl Lenz -- 2 Diversity in Canadian families: choices, constraints, and social policy dimensions / Barbara A. Mitchell and Lun Li -- 3 The (in)visibility of French family diversity / Anne-Laure Garcia -- 4 German families: east-west differences in diversity / Karl Lenz and Tino Schlinzig -- 5 Limited family diversity in Japan: a legacy of traditional familism / Takashi Yamashita -- 6 Lithuanian families: living diversity in times of outdated policies / Aušra Maslauskaite -- 7 Family diversity in Spain: a portrait of rapid transformation / Gerardo Meil, Jesús Rogero-García and Vicente Díaz-Gandasegui -- 8 Changes in family diversity in Sweden: opportunities, constraints and challenges / Barbara Hobson, Livia Sz. Oláh and Glenn Sandström -- 9 Diversity in UK families: liberalization of public attitudes and policies / Ursula Henz -- 10 The complexities of family diversity in the contemporary US / Marina A. Adler -- 11 Diversification in family forms in nine OECD countries - challenges for policy and research / Marina A. Adler and Karl Lenz -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-03-204502-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-03-204503-5
Language:
English
